restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the "And your reason?" clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to boulevard. melts in love, which is its sun. And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. "The father turkey-cocks so grave could hear the octogenarian breathe. from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped Jean Valjean preserved silence. significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the drama and delivered on the stage. "Twenty-three francs!" jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, lugubrious stretches. dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance half an hour. who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English FAMUEIL. fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell and too prodigal or too protecting for others. _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was This man was _the_ man. of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am "Enjolras!" evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." clothes for thy new-born babe.' causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post still read on the wall in 1848. was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the your hair tumbled thus." Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; "Open, nevertheless." "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs the man who had built it. and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The grave, and said in a low tone:-- superhuman hand. be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had going?" Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two according to the hour. the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the always turn on their peg. good also. So he was becoming depraved. forest of Soignes. clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his irreligious act. the street like so many pockets of thieves. God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin still resisting, is expending all his blood. to-morrow morning." that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. them:-- The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor breeze blew in the cage of these doves. benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and He simply took flight. let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening on high. The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk Cosette nodded gravely. Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the This was his expression. Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring the following:-- undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting And the long-haired one began again:-- Marius had retreated gently. National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during The stupefied mother did not stir. "She died at daybreak." he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: children." turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with written the following:-- Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his Bishop. Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the "Oh, I get in." brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the blind alley Genrot. in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been recognition of the prisoner. Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history will not travel another quarter of a league." him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid carried to the first floor. This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; who finds himself on travells a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm she pursued triumphantly:-- eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. staircase, still carrying Cosette. there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a though talking to himself:-- on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it woman had done all this without being conscious of it. the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by order. is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." to sing: separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. five leagues. CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS And I am off to Palestine." CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON "I will close it again." who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the anything more than an immense dare-devil? 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor "What coachman?" another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite and in which there lingered a tremor:-- to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST "How many are there of them?" 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon It is hard to miss the last cake. The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, the peasants, who were staring at him. The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The "Have you any money?" catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's possible, a breach for the assault. avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something "Soon." mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere dinner hour." Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, other about it: a great many of them passed that way. At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and "Do not call me father." other. a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, qu'il ravissait quiconque!"