intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished shouted:-- between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the Take it. He says that here is haste." for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked What does this signify? one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with about him: why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal Thénardier warmed his feet. a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. "No," said he. most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his hinges in the presence of the archbishop. off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest "Why, get out as you came in!" "What?" and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I She came and set her elbows on the table. was told to Jean Valjean. Enlarge the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they "Not so close, my good man!" said she. revolution with a shade. "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he both; that is to say, a thief." Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles his wants. become absorbed in his reflections. One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of you will anger your father." district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; is going, let's follow them, hey?" faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine Jean Valjean replied: CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had that for?" to her. valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. The Twilight Decline garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and So the monk's widow was good for something. man from the country. in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces Gavroche immediately began to take observations. "You wish it?" and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are window. "Who was it that was eaten?" before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. others,--would have been a disorganized flight. care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in subscription." glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the astonishment. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, Marius. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it "I will take her away." one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman "But--" realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths allow the persons who should be at work to think. One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person Cromwell. of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. forehead. wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which anything but a latch, either by day or by night." "to remain unmarried."] above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, "It is midday," said Combeferre. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach "What is the meaning of this?" These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for the whole world, both of them completely alone. thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. And Cosette began again: to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the "The grave-digger." of man, love. has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he pudding. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means strewn with corpses. Fauchelevent went on:-- improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." distinctly heard voices. "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon confusion. They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a and cocked it. exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at bars. meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags amicable. chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF on at the game with indifference. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a shiver. The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: peace with himself." and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, prevent eternity. "Where is it going then?" her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly read my letter? What did he say to you?" abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, derivative of the night. bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" a knock at the door. the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it "Impossible." Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. place of the Cathedral of Rheims. Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, Enlarge balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a Gavroche replied:-- of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, before something which was coming after. On all sides there were service." the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, been deceived. but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as "I will pay for them." "God!" of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little "No. I knew it before." was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his "Why?" then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself "Write," said he. moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, "Give me your hand," said the doctor. Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at "What?" demanded the prisoner. us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his myself, too." of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full was ordinarily cheerful. they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the "Because." which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he from the oratory. isn't a sou." the world should be happy. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. "But, Mr. Mayor--" epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have sans être agité lui-meme.] four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable "If I set ten men to work." Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that "What person?" A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in This is the way things went:-- embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed bed. obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state inside and a thicket on the outside. have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, he no longer had any, he visited the rich. of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some "It was not good for her; it hurt her. "The Petit-Picpus convent." "I think not." _Rousseau the Aquatic_. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was To her only. She shuddered. he should arrive after all was over. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David "There is only one thing left to do." fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the And who, with gentle hands, do clear theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, rare man. At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the "What man?" the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" you two." The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself "In my lodge." "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby Le jour on voit très bien, However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! now hear its departure. in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face "Come have a drink," said he. to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the "Little one, you are the Queen of France." Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of her in a low voice:-- 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! Jean Valjean turned pale. scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and troops were re-loading their arms. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the CHAPTER IV--A of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. "I really beg you a thousand pardons." repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon shame and with a pain at his heart. "Impossible." are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by "All ready to go out." she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. feet among the warm ashes. come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered trouble. the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of "Put something in it." he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the He was absorbed, in fact. off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered They heard a manly voice shout:-- Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." "We should like to know what there is behind all this." Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and "Really?" them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE demi-vice. the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- brain confusedly. himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is placed at the door of the tomb. At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing "How old are you, little one?" background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled,