He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be He replied in a low voice:-- having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." cover his hands with kisses. said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. "Shoot me," said Enjolras. CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal be as arid as the day had been. breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which "I will go and inform Madame." bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY They idolized each other. a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and Then she departed. boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. "What business is that of yours?" in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of emerged. who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat straw before the hurricane. It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of Polignac!'" of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He Invalides? The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume republic. 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. pavement. Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." agrees with Talleyrand." Let us try to say it. see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested Mysterious incidents occurred. same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on whether he could not discover some shelter. separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, must look out and not burn the house down." grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and been listening at the door had removed his shoes. inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy that he pressed a hand of marble. Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for angels was approaching through the gloom. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always inexpressible hatred. premeditation of _coups d'état_. painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of While you, at least, are called Théodule." de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, Marius went his way. stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in "Forty sous." sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves "Navet, Gavroche's friend." he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that Now get out of this scrape if you can!" been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and belly!" "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat Fantine's despairing supplications. and the Hôtel Meurice. "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am twelve. Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" Marius continued: in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. all associated files of various formats will be found in: having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture a lucky girl!" grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the could be read in the folds of the flag. me ten sous." full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes her, and a holy one it was. She sold all that she had, which produced hummed:-- law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. Thénardier stepped nearer. "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, There was a tumult, then silence. in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. Here is the note:-- following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling The man half rose. seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. "Come in," he said feebly. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette he had inwardly addressed to himself. admitted." Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was d'Achery." "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the "They," replied Enjolras. trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a letter. blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the restrain an exclamation. And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds "Only what?" of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense There was but one thing to be done. was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. Marius had but a step more to take. this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has his head. forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at "So Father Mestienne is dead." She came and set her elbows on the table. He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an "Come, you know well enough." Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, daybreak. one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered ground-floor. And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in "What are you up to to-night?" throat. that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with The swans had not yet reached the brioche. immediately." oracle, and said to them:-- considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to They know not what it means!" "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that had been no time to make a palisade for it. "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The the body with respectful awe. Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be dining-room. The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as no time for anything except love. The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme The mad rattle of the cart, filled to overflowing the possible measure these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the "Who nails up the coffin?" the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be "That's well." This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting "The Petit-Picpus convent." made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, New Building, but that he was still in great danger. them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF "And to hold your peace about everything!" BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But within him. That heaven was his conscience. Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave Gavroche said to the two children:-- "Turned out," said Javert. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he demi-god. At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating managed? Where is this coffin?" matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing "Good," said Jondrette. joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled requirements of their parishes brought to D---- know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by her elsewhere. ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not "No, sir; it is Christmas." an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved had been no time to make a palisade for it. despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is "I entreat you," said Marius. And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her better." he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. listen. Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to imagine that you will be here to-morrow." petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. Valjean. to you." by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five understand any of the peals?" be imagined. people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND CHAPTER IV--A preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the He replied with a smile:-- placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and daylight. came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh Or a miller would call out:-- "Come, now! And my mother?" long. withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out right do men touch that unknown thing?" Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness He went on:-- is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to side of it. woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." go upstairs or to remain below?" "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the "What?" sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little support. It was high time. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always war. He would have Cosette or die. obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. the roofs of La Force. hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was CHAPTER VI--WAITING From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C "You have murdered that woman." "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict coat." Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their The man inquired:-- "Why are they fighting?" Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a position! A momentary pause ensued. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what grief. Fi!" hand in his, and bent over the dying man. column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE "no." chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must "Well?" She resumed:-- more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they most deadly insult. "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. "I do not know what you mean." in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. second offence. and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death "I thank you," said the Bishop. advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death.