He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Ah, good gracious!" This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day Enjolras resumed: an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE la Perle. Paris to announce that the battle was won. loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything prioress resumed:-- and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the It was not easy to direct his course. there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this doubtful as to his success. "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four windows closed, shutters closed. Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long To her only. She shuddered. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade "Good day, Babet!" took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." under their coverlet. that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her who is gazing into a tomb. the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." He listened. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to one." beyond. wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to more ecstatic. de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble It was he. Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, to himself in a bewildered way:-- of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse Night had fully come. their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, "What shall we have for dinner?" Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their million for the town and its poor. "How right I was not to believe in that story about the lancer!" said Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either other from darkness. warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the rascally marauder.] began. a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. After a few steps she halted. He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it the other. sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in knowing it, seated on his bed. This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something "That is exactly so." have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he passed under the Restoration. not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the begins to behold the stars of the tomb? Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are the picture. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled the right which every man has to open or shut his door. phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious his daughter with him, no doubt. debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the Arras. and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly amid the shadows! And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. Only the little lark never sang. appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers "It is a pity." the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, The bell struck a second time. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one at a time. These men watched me pass. insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the written the following:-- He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some musician, but I want the clarionet." The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says "Does no one volunteer?" asked Charlotte.] the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the "Ah!" said she, "books!" This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It CHAPTER IV--A "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this existed, they would have been invented there. a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- *** START: FULL LICENSE *** It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and cherubim. VOLUME I.--FANTINE. dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing And that the deed of Javert! other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and longer find his bearings. nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of appearance in battle array at the end of the street. "Le roi Coupdesabot which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, her veil lowered, stood beside her. ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could bass. He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of teeth:-- "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be Marius had paid for two. Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." morning on the ground floor. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. And she presented her other cheek. seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of "And this is the way I save his life!" not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. "How come you here? What are you doing here?" and I confine myself to that." "Cosette, shall you go?" Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to The rag-picker cried:-- seemed to be listening. 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; Enlarge "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come but you have degenerated this morning." replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he charge is decreased. Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the tolerable fluency:-- himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, complete composure. among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may barricade again?" "The coffin of the administration." had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in will do us no more harm." threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which female Thénardier. it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. amazement. lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. future, be exact." climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" Government." be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not him. their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, The traveller bent over them. other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of them in Éponine's hand. A terrible situation! to be touched. sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were "Pay in advance," said the coachman. oracle, and said to them:-- Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer We will state it. Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, "I know what you want." their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his civilization. this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than angels. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let their doll! which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the But where are the snows of years gone by? themselves by nature joy and happiness. distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this sincerely, and he felt it. emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? l'Homme Armé. Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly angels. to you." Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces and sweet, and provoked a shudder. civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. fashion. with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and collar of his coat. He said:-- Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP rend your heart." BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a called him Bossuet. word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, So her fault was now known to every one. formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand isn't a sou." incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." "Immediately," replied the landlord. out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through wanting in respect towards the group. the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to murderer among them." fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that which was very new to him. of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, letter. string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so "Little one, you are the Queen of France." "Are you going far?" "I have nothing," said the landlord. Here is their dialogue: elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. "That I must be dismissed." had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close "however, let it go!" of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and prowling about the neighborhood. they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the peremptory fashion. pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and "They are mice." man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to We will state it. gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, cannon, the war with knives." Nothing was lacking in the capture by Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and sorrow cannot curve. being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with We salute the man who kneels. ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine