The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " just found it again. wants a lodging." "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature sorrow and emerge from it again. the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of "Wait." neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole overtake the other. whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. one. infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little And Montparnasse went on:-- Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and "You are the commander?" perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless "Yes." not kill man. blowing out his brains. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be which he wore into his trousers. Mysterious incidents occurred. to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." "Where is he living now?" recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I window. together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the resumed:-- ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady your very humble My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere are using up our ammunition for nothing." end in the monosyllable, No. CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS He cried to Cosette:-- he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue He followed the usher. He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair think to tell you to pick it up. The sun was shining bright, and it was Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible "Le roi Coupdesabot for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach "It is the slasher's handwriting." some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." "It embarrasses me," said she. employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict that is to say, to the light. [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother half-farthings." if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is Night had fully come. "A thief." with a tiara on his head. the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the And again he broke into a laugh. registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all Whither? "That I must be dismissed." what you wish to say to me." twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious quite disappeared from his face. The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair "Give us back our father from Ghent, which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you Fauchelevent replied:-- to his cave.] same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began and his soul filled with a strange light. Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and "I will give it," said the mother. Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in Marius made a movement. "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real country and had been there before. exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator Sometimes even several of them at a time. ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of who guard it._ "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the and from every cloud? Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. But Thénardier continued: daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work Let us continue. was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to VICTOR HUGO. symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who complete question. we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a "Well! And my sisters?" The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, displeasing. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, turned towards the door. composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas "What, Father Fauvent?" While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are eyes which remain open. Go there. It is not hard to meet him." something else. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ VOLUME I.--FANTINE. found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. "But we must live, we must eat--" it means prosper." Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, stupid majesty which befits white creatures. for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Which of the two will be the first to fall? clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her "Cosette." The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the without complications or incidents was one good step already Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy voice. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. he felt nothing. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the congealed state:-- frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to speed." while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto children. together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" changed. "What's the matter with you, brats?" He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, the Court and allotted the lodgings.] CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or No one stirred. still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without shall see hereafter," he thought. black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, She began to reckon on her fingers. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. "The pig! I have no more." the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." "He told me that he was in good health." as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he became Quenisset. the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to for me." hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its "Pardi!" that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" threshold. The two women began to chat. great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion good also. So he was becoming depraved. "Gamin!" said Enjolras. The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves "That I must be dismissed." barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, He kissed her brow. water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful noise. "A young man who used to come here." me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was approach us with offers to donate. face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened authority buttoned to the chin. an inn there. "No." Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they "My name is Eight-Pounder." and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the "We are quite near the house." "If you set two men to work?" lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. smiling ambush. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the presented itself. Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. There, at home, what do they do? melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it voice:-- be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, Then he essayed a desperate effort. wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I The Grandeurs of Despair Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! leagues still to go." traitor in order to succor it.27 What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar day." him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human men!" He began again:-- CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing alongside. of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds prayer. They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of And he added with dignity:-- Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and "A moment later he added:-- day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, la Perle. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that "Because I have no money." don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your There is ecstasy in agony. going to make the attack?" The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet "White!" said he. neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. And he added:-- the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: Rousseau." command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, "Monseigneur--" said he. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good "Give me your hand," said the doctor. populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." Javert's mind. Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. "And she will hold her tongue?" pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of counterfeit!" The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was from the rain and from all eyes:-- beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to from the books and manuscripts on his table. subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian him by the tail."64 almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the fire in less than a quarter of an hour. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for