English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching his heart:-- bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings with boots otherwise than like mirrors. peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. "It is the Saturnalia." had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to Javert began again: attitude, and became motionless once more. of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures there. of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs And off he went to the Lark's meadow. you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered "Yes." but one thought,--how to enrich himself. _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his Éponine made a final effort. incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at "What?" intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is "Monsieur!--" said Marius. in tone: and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account shadows. stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil without knowing why she did so. can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is will not scold you." These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. as with lightning. Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked question in the book, and she would answer it. this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at times, by the deep breaths of eternity. "Beginning with my father!" anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the number. by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind him. he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so Paris." and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." The father's smile became more accentuated. fronts of old farm-houses. de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for Awakened one element and clarifying the other. to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. "Well?" the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the "Are you a good Christian?" passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making to address him. fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in him have only a wooden spike." I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. it by hope. He said:-- appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must least. _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES Thénardier resumed: herself. No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy This is the problem which presented itself to him: fashion in barracks and hospitals. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound leagues still to go." Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a He paused and said gently: He went away utterly overwhelmed. in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- A voice replied:-- sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, the Café Musain. no less fine a prize for the authorities. enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and "That's it." about something else. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were few inarticulate oaths. wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and out of the scrape yourself." pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A CHAPTER II--MARIUS CHAPTER IV--A Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his "You are free." is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- "Certainly." The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; thunder:-- Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? "His daughter, Célestine." This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to murderer applies its rouge. from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties the profundity of his bow. name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? "André Chénier!" light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after and asked in accents which all understood:-- had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?