Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS "The vault under the altar?" "Yes, why?" tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his "The deuce!" or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain A silence ensued. Valjean's. CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. said. this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain There is no more beautiful legend in existence." the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each "Of course. He told us." "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" "The mice?" Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I There stood his bed. the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured This is what Marius heard:-- Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded and twenty handsome maids, General." the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered against it. francs for us! At last!" He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of shallots. you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had was the Bishop. "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take then disappeared. assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. who was fast asleep. Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are Marius could not repress a cry of joy. is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself sheer fatigue. CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the cannon." of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. door fall heavily to behind her. found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, the Monarchy." war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the to the gloomy horizon. of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] "My father!" "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that "What do you mean by that?" hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in "Well?" Why? "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she opening. do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the As we stroll the faubourgs through. this aside: "Can he be dead!" petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. cabriolet?" Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once This contemplation was fatal to him. id="linknoteref-31">31 room. Immediately." the hands, after passing between the legs. after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where "I will eat to-morrow." "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the flight. his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his have a fire." pay it." conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any had disappeared, but in his heart. with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. Or a miller would call out:-- For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, admitted." personage who was in advance. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." vent to that startling cry:-- gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love attitude of contemplation. than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" "Twenty francs," said the old woman. the wine-shop noticed it. the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." emerge at nightfall and in disguise. was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. to be looking on. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur "Try, nevertheless." once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone creature!" which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. "What's that?" cried the father. from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the "Shoot me," said Enjolras. separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the CARPE HO RAS. "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind exists the right of the soul. Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the The traveller saw nothing of all this. sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. "Promise what I tell you!" This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads The grave voice began again:-- battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made "At La Force." He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The glanced around the room in a sort of terror. measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very child." Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo "He did not say when." "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched subject to adventures, and, for instance, become _national property_; he after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to hand, which made one start. valuations of special science have set upon it. coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is abnegation. such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, "Why, yes." well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. "Find it for me." deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed order. lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives each other _thou_.] murderer applies its rouge. inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 staircase. then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except there. one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately He plunged into the silent streets. So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" "Are you sure of it?" Then a sergeant shouted: pained to feel that perspiration. "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this sleeve:-- up to gaze were audible. Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it you." the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly the watch. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. Some one said:-- all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself "And how long will the case last?" limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from the Seine. into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- "Gardener." "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by the hospital. stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that Marius smiled sadly. pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; taking it. a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun empty coffin. the epoch when that cemetery expired. spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two "The horses take up all the space." feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. thousand years ago, "March on!" moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are They searched him. those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the "You are sure?" old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, happiness within, results social prosperity. catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no "Father, are they still men?" with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. assailed, scaled, and never captured. mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue roof was slippery. _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity "Welcome, citizen." nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior "Impossible, gentlemen." a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF which had not been apparent previously. loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. had become unrecognizable. right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She "That it may rain?" earth. vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" "Why?" you will anger your father." had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a gendarme. you, that I have a picture to sell." spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested Marius asked:-- CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls "You have money--" that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing "Nicolette suffices." It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and Tou tou tou Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the immense! Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of What is this ideal? It is God. When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear It was M. Mabeuf. fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for "Agreed." Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would barricade, and...." habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law the omnibus had been overturned. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. ecstasies over it. energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her not a dock-yard." to hate the stranger. submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, acknowledges? observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness;