but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this hair. that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not thousand crowns." "Cosette." the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that eyes:-- One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three Valjean." "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. replied: 'I wanted to know.'" or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, and asked in accents which all understood:-- only bad cultivators." such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." The hearse halted. "Thanks." flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." aunt.'" mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call met. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his confusion. slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In Fauchelevent burst out laughing. that house?" He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The more around lambs. "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. sufficient to create consternation. From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. And he added:-- fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which done? in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child elder Jondrette girl. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce begin, then, by going for a drink." As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one "Come in," said he. hair. is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind As for the man, he was the same as usual. water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the And if he let go his hold? It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the "Yes." travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." not count for something in his approach to perfection. athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing "Give it to me." charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a to her. These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered A momentary pause ensued. were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been "I have seen no one." of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. Whom shall he reproach? gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. Mistress Balizard. which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and repulsive in this light. beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares "No." the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, "You're nothing but a bastard." to an unhappy soul. Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what was heard. the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with "For whom is this letter?" hundred francs. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was abandoned his glass and hastened up. just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he round and seized the doll in a transport. the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his in fact, lost. disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. "How much?" he demanded. knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. here? It is a mistake." Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon other. he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the audible. that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean to mention it. blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished watered the whole garden. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the like to kick her stomach in for her!" level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by All wheeled round. It was Javert. breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes people have you at the present moment?" purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his M. Leblanc uttered not a word. as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to below. "What other case?" "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The "He is not here." By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. He paused, and said to his daughters:-- he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. de la Verrerie, No. 16." wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the for his grandfather. had beheld her garter. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, had a round hat. These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." perceived neither Basque nor the candle. casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at were closed. was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. the wine test," said Thénardier. two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a take the barricade. how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had were not made--" CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE one in the crowd. He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After which he had purchased. probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had tear was his son's delay. plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught found. So he has dived through the earth." asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been valuations of special science have set upon it. Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral of a citizen. severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A "Bosh," said Gavroche. and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the they say if I did not go?" suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and A pause ensued. young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were "Yes." the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an "A secret." incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. him!" were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure him a sort of trumpet. child, which she carried in her arms. shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE him!" decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never experienced a moment of happy coquetry. Frontispiece Volume One What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant again?" never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, them, and his heart began to beat. make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole like a drop of dew on a flower. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the "There is no one but me." than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his heard in all quarters of the town:-- contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind He said, "No, Madame." Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, checker-board." and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. Zi zi zi Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in "What did you come here for?" he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." Mistress Balizard. to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately for his grandfather. The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, "Yes." apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 five or six large sous. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: eyes. porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the begin, then, by going for a drink." Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, "She is going on three." "Feel how cold I am," said she. ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] their neighbors. things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible guards and one battalion from Brunswick. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON ships of the line. their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate "Are you alone there?" heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the trouble to get this one." a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they Cosette, that man is an angel!" The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let "I can't quit the vehicle." He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all "We are quite near the house." Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he shot." arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing way from this paper." Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for,