beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when an antique memory." at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was before her in desperation. ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. de la Chanvrerie. Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there God." She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her pursuers and himself. He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the a manner provided against unexpected accidents. the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the "That was what I said to myself." CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its "Not even of you, father!" authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and It was already done. is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a The Bishop clapped his hands. the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much Cosette turned toward Marius. He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words The portress stood bewildered. gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may thee!" At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a Brujon?" abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There "What did the doctor say?" against the chimney-piece once more. L'Esplanade-du-Sud. my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached of rock. her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! was told to Jean Valjean. Cosette halted in alarm. the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the Gavroche immediately began to take observations. into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When "All day long?" The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the did you bring so many; they were not needed." The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to placed them, lighted, on the table. replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the said:-- "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP and weeds, and died. and very obedient servant, speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. lovers. certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter Zi zi zi beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, "Not particularly." hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their unhappy woman?" am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, below. who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after Plantes?" is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all other. where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining would have answered: "In the night." These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in disastrous." went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. Cosette recoiled. His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons "Who, sir?" She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an "Three." the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little its neck. "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage "Listen." not see. paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition "You are dead. A two." reader's mind. Etc., etc. partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. did not answer. were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit immense! case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused "To see your father." of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze Language: English never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give "to-day I have a mattress of stone." Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; The mirror reflected the writing. of the old man!" of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no pallets, which were empty. with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, obscurity. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his impelled to accost that child. invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it turned towards the door. At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market had been no time to make a palisade for it. be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. Jean Valjean stammered: Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a "Go and get the child," said he. would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, "Let it be a white cloth, then." _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et Frontispiece Volume Four The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the "Well, it is raining. What then?" This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused that my brother was no longer with me. soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in Father Madeleine--" and sweet, and provoked a shudder. mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the Frontispiece Volume Three had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." fall from his pocket. to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- "I don't know," replied Cosette. Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old talking aloud to me." abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that "That is true." insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the tears, they distinguished words like the following: everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade Jean Valjean listened. We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background passed. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the less steep. "Sure." small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling length she cried:-- When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, "You are a fool." man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word "It was mine." him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful "I think not." go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did lost." it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the And the long-haired one began again:-- "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had the body. Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he Cosette herself. lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we which are, to-day, probably effaced: remained classic:-- tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean Conciergerie, so was La Force. no fault of ours." here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden who was a thinker. word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the mustaches. other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child riches. And this was his doing. commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light not be overheard." When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, first." as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the "I consent to that." in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three The carter was a German and did not understand him. Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED One day Cosette said to him:-- there. to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest-