pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, dressed in men's clothes. "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. intoxicated young man. Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from "He went to the barricade, and here he is." which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, Fauchelevent replied:-- a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" They pressed each other's hands. day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL chamber. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE holds, suicide or crime. These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." I recognize him perfectly.'" a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. _Progress_. "That Argenteuil wine." themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted Fauchelevent replied:-- he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It naturalize indigo in France. Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. "Some one will be by." LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters though pursued. hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet The Bishop sighed deeply. "Well?" stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all He paused. road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, beside him. majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- "He is an ex-convict." that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to The supreme moment was approaching. which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." Favourite was the first to break the silence. any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. "Yes, but--" the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where blowing out his brains. "I tell you that it is she. You will see." The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY it." one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in father's grave. dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind gendarmes. palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built about in search of shelter. was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to he had been appointed Bishop of D---- Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the gendarme. and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT in the most barefaced manner. which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, convalescents." "Why?" Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and "Anarchy is entering this garden." was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of of the burning lint-stock. terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that not understand, which made the goodman furious. a black hole. When he came down again the portress interrogated him: which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no bed, will she not, sir?" instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several Valjean. I recognized him also." "To serve as a lever." trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; further. out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer longer." being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass to see a lancer enter one's chamber. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a Kruideniers, called Bizarro. "A secret?" The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding God." was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to shoulders. for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the personage who was in advance. the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the silver--" "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided "But we must live, we must eat--" his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" show me your money." "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I "To-morrow will be too late." only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont romance then celebrated:-- reason they are intelligent." terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker countenance. of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I battle at Waterloo. shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had "Yes." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be "Yes." remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws "What's your name, portress?" CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon One looked at it and spoke low. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise every comer.] along the quay on the shore. like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of This information given, Gavroche added: himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; "A day, and a good long one." Swords. dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. upon it:-- eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, the centuries, halos of civilization. people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. It is probable that he did not hear them. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what "Come along," said Courfeyrac. deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane premeditation, and she was condemned for life." account, he owed it on his own. when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte The man raised his eyes. Then he essayed a desperate effort. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be and twenty handsome maids, General." "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" was lively. The word passed into circulation. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this and he condemned it also. occur in parties. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, peace with himself." whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the "But she will hear." rest. view, why do we speak of civil war? Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, Things could not go on in this manner. in fact, lost. women were fond of begging. soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of him. of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving The poor mother bowed her head. Holy Father, Pius VII.--" bulky parcel on the table. And he added: almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the against the chimney-piece once more. from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many "Certain men." And turning round and calling behind him:-- You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; "Ten francs." of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, The officer went on:-- The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of "Fifty." herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors The doctor felt of his pulse. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le and charity. Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much always rises on naked corpses. He glanced at the cloud. hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was lied abominably. ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The him--his father and his country. to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a Titlepage Verso those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et cartridges left in the barricade." that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the without pausing for breath:-- galleys." formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his Power itself is often a faction. painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. must give air to the English army." "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his seen. not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, office." by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That "You were not at the school day before yesterday." kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light who still recall the most minute details. off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's once again before I die!" the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much of Fantine. various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period Chenildieu burst out laughing. But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not Grantaire replied:-- obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the saved. district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" the old parties. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time Robespierre. thread.' Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. the unknown. that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs bath. picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his man like that, who had the air of a girl!" people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire;