air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who "You?" "Somewhat." and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very quarter. turned squarely round. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an Fauchelevent started. The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something Marius rose and said coldly:-- destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" "Reverend Mother!" corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone represent? The assassinated sage. were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the IENA gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an "What's this?" she exclaimed. and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the "It is a continuation of her slumber." sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades the rock. The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS blind alley Genrot. same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, "Nor to any one?" said Marius. whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a "Peuh!" he exclaimed. of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected Friday. old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." "What time is it?" Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible phrase in your letter. You write:-- He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he in advance? I have money, I tell you." half an hour. Enlarge Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, Plantes?" lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN This is what she read. which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle evening of their arrival. worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the "But, Mr. Mayor--" their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an "I am the convent grave-digger." a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! as grave. He rose. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope "Only what?" you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that CHAPTER II--MARIUS Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an Fauchelevent replied:-- were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" take only very short steps. in the cathedral. On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire this youth. that side." read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest hungry? "What are you going to do?" fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- was the Bishop. To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at A convict was his benefactor! off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the "I will bring you something." needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, "I have none." rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He thoroughly reassured. Like Jean Valjean, she had, a few hours had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is this time all had come. I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. Marius. leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, not ill. not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he see here!" which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered After a moment he inquired:-- CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The "Monsieur Pontmercy." BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle is smaller; that is all. penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who quickly." "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! with you." Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." he has." a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order to have patience. what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not hermetically again. am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to "Fifty." since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." "Impossible, sir." "The gentleman!" redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek that, as children, they have a right to flowers. "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the "There are the little girls." (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a fire in less than a quarter of an hour. Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his uttering the word _country_. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a decided on. under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her Gavroche was at home, in fact. expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the anything but effect, we seek the cause. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the "But the commissary of police--" aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had "There, truly, he is coming?" "No." "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, replied, with assurance:-- were closed. missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, for the different societies. their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in "Hey?" said Gavroche again. alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on "What does Monsieur wish?" without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will He murmured: under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not "Who?" said Jean Valjean. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this Enlarge quite as much. gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. of the Constituent Assembly. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you out of this." there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort to her. Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the evening of their arrival. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell Cosette." Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into mistaking me for some other person." but could not. Which of the two will be the first to fall? the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, with legal order. clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two glance of the transfigured drunken man. BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will was heard to open and shut again. the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. laughing and lyric. already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" mingled with bursts of grape-shot. CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! "Get into bed," replied the man. obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously to me,"_ replied the Bishop. perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with "Monsieur!--" said Marius. that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing "Put your back against the wall." were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was CHAPTER I--WELL CUT man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ "Break a pane!" he repeated. dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him here. What happiness!" As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, village that he had studied for the priesthood. chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE blue eyes aged four and five years:-- chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the "I have the address." Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed "Come in," he said feebly. Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "No." masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die round:-- Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above Did she mean to go out? No. footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by there. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his But Thénardier continued: uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most "You are sure?" her bare throat. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- "Where is the Argenteuil?" degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only silver--" sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked possible, a breach for the assault. will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the Then throwing down the pen:-- will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew past with the future. we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; a better table than you do.' mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. "Of what?" said Marius. In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to Marius replied with embarrassment:-- Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of into a sort of ineffable light. He answered in a low, curt voice:-- the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap "Not yet, Mademoiselle." Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the