"I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" are, you children!" framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to "There are lone women," said Guelemer. hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" The mother stammered:-- _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. "Here is something for your trouble." and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the come and presented itself to him of its own accord. plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and This made both of them laugh the whole evening. repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you Thénardier continued:-- subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." Fauchelevent replied:-- He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an "All! All!" Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. fugitives. "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in very low tone:-- Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the "This is my place, sir." where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, first is dark, the second is black. It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on history they will not be met with any more. They went away. Here he broke his silence. proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the "No." charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. his bare arm. These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" And this other poem:-- Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. return. He departed with drooping head. CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden "All out!" shouted Enjolras. more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This "I don't know." "What is your request?" said the King. men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a "It is a pity." Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not added:-- of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding The door opened. fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." them?" lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" Javert!" "That is good." CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the "Why?" of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is service. returned to Paris. followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that all sorts of dark edifices. Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the convalescents." skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of "Is it cold?" plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. Enlarge Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "I am dying," said she. voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such The Bishop sighed deeply. weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just "Not even of you, father!" as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of "How do you feel?" agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy this illuminated space. monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already "Or elsewhere." according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that heroes who win renown. they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, A second shovelful fell. stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the along. This made a noise which afforded her company. As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this "So be it." taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" cause stars to blaze forth there. Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified effect of a corpse." One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, with a good deal of acrimony. in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow firing a gun. exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of "Her grandfather." redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the of the street. three letters of that word: She. marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what a great deal of obscurity. too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little And he added: The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in There is no more beautiful legend in existence." face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes Lamarque. Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former expression which all children will understand. was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. in fact, lost. shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An at a time. These men watched me pass. requirements of their parishes brought to D---- time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a Why? there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the "Has my father returned yet?" What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one "I have my papers," he said calmly. "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall times. public safety, to be so good as to go...." be as arid as the day had been. Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment _you_ to Éponine. "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a MUNICIPAL POLICE cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de from the rain and from all eyes:-- in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, The sun had set. again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who name--Euphrasie?" same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it A voice replied:-- the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel the South. secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold "I entreat you," said Marius. am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in which she has slept for the last twenty years." "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. "There are three of us." all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? Candlesticks Into the Fire In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their not come from there. The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. He sprang out of the tilbury. and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" bed. was obliged to fight to-day. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in Now, he had just failed in this. The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an "Anything you like." Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP "I did knock, Madame." The man approached and gazed down upon her. paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." broken. heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those He confined himself to replying: her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw "I'm going to put these infants to bed." "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: A terrible situation! to be touched. Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that possesses grandeur of soul. declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had "Are you going far?" If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her of life been established between this celestial little creature and that What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on "It means that I am the son of my father." we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was the while:-- thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I private." passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each "How long ago?" safety. It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of "Yes, I have." seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. beside him. Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on the human form. At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an be. sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around being sketched out. the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has first is dark, the second is black. fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds himself, were printed for the first time. than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, "I ask you whether you will go?" the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all beyond. "In a hackney carriage." "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, have been already mad." a quittance from the past. "He spends the night out." causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" "Wait until the day after to-morrow." delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, asleep. fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push outside, past the trees and the gate. She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as "White!" said he. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the called _Madame la Colonelle_. He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his with a tiara on his head. built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. francs." he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping at the foot of the thicket. a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG the hospital. window. The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, 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. think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the side of an abyss: of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To child. the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with Then she questioned him:-- beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, "Thanks." often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we infinite. to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to The lad asked for no further enlightenment.