had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed man. "Well, go and get some, then!" thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" "The landlord is not pleased." She did not open her eyes. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | husband she lodged and fed her young brother. to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. to the general of the Lazarists. has already lasted half a century. gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." things. His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES What was the object of the second man? The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg Courfeyrac was bare-headed. alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue war." Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more only attached to the bed now by one leg. beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over "His daughter, Célestine." them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- the barricade and wounded several men. The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The with that?] convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he how, and was not asleep. necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except occasionally had recourse: The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his "Why not?" just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not forest. "But you, Father Madeleine?" How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a basket. bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better "We must!" is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, barricade. moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's VOLUME I.--FANTINE. standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and horse for the rider. Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she and who say: "No one shall have him!" obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like back. About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? "Who are you?" knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack air and his eyes still cast down. She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional a curve on the ground.] loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. crimes! And what faults! has entered here. Who are you, sir?" "Blank." same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this "Monsieur Mabeuf!" furious and humiliated shrugs. there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden "How old are you?" victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she Javert did not withdraw. unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. "Where is Monsieur going?" Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD The early days passed in this dazzled state. In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very "So you mean to enter this house?" excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing knows the rest. le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist good." of destiny produce these billows in our souls. presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few Change." come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had abandoned his glass and hastened up. and cocked it. been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of on its guard. He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without "Is that what you want?" she demanded. After an interval of silence she went on:-- glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to fatal of crimes. by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very cook-shop was in a bad way. even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, "To the galleys." The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the the dogs who complain." "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as "André Chénier!" Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, console the widowed proprietress. For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which "Say on." 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk Infinite. at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in He replied:-- BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making trip was too hard for them, he went alone. the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of to him. All is explained. You understand." This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the The kicks continued. sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was "Anything I like?" to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way Eden. CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their domain eBooks. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has frogs held their peace. faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no her daughters as an ottoman. A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the respectable old man. "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his interdicted. These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the and inquired for the commissary of police. And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. illuminated from below. heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on wrote the letter is in the antechamber." Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: perfume and with poison, which is called love. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. "Really?" "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, battle-field. that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and they are not visible and palpable. black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, table, almost under the drinkers' feet. and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- "I have knocked at all doors." sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are And this was simply divine. "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me God passes on to the following act. opened it, and cried:-- laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when "Father!" said Cosette. And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the idea of anything similar. to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE radiance of death. every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately think of my daughter's first communion!" And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never A man entered. being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as in haste?" Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By brain confusedly. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. While you, at least, are called Théodule." and the Pont de Jéna." The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they the young tree which is sawed off at the root? was lying in wait for him. the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. than hovels. brain confusedly. regarded by others. close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. men. One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the In this bed Cosette was sleeping. handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to "Hitched to a cabriolet?" It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I traverse. floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my "Is there a carriage at the door?" "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something As we stroll the faubourgs through. mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of Enlarge let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, Enlarge preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. "That is the thought which occurred to me." more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. human problem. "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good "I have none." principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their the absence of the wolf. "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. as his trousers. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness distance and crying:-- Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing Then a sergeant shouted: philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The he sprang from the earth. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. approach us with offers to donate. to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature "She will not turn round." Thénardier exclaimed:-- man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel hundred thousand francs with you!" is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la