we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" "A living person." Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. All at once, he stopped short. "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an Fauchelevent replied:-- interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were You will deliver Cosette to this person. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. of life been established between this celestial little creature and that It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette "What! so it's that imp!" As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond So there now!" "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, how, and was not asleep. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The following, addressed to "the federates":-- cry. at the foot of the thicket. an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue continued: further. "What street?" accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a This was the grandfather. undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and to get out." "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, instant later he had fallen asleep. suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of though pursued. gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je Courfeyrac replied: warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean passport. That is what it is like." the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew "Father Fauvent?" Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the BAPTISTINE. A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay there within who are sleeping!" of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was gray of the sky. M. Leblanc made his appearance. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. frown. "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts of stone. been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring VICTOR HUGO. is only to be seen among men. caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" few minutes. "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. sky." leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and with himself. himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? get you again!" that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught lifted up his voice once more. heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix "I am going to try something." modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" Marius had but a step more to take. Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the word. more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these descend the staircase rapidly. whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree us something to breakfast on." Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most "You, Mr. Mayor." read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to compliments. What is the meaning of this?" Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he pillars of the market. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had carried a mattock under his arm. J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; was getting the upper hand. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take was wiping out Agincourt. need to ask permission." nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten room. On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the demi-vice. a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. "After us!" yelled the ruffians. ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. centenarian as erect as a young man. multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have liberalism. between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, "What jade is this?" The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" Marius was slender and readily passed through. Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget "Yes." had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to His exasperation can be imagined. PREFACE two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. herself once more on her chair. in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, the truth about Louis Philippe. Marius retorted: "And myself also." the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When "Children in particular." first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of says: "Phew!" arrive will have the best places." above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, that our intentions are not evil." consisted of:-- "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him this matter." but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, "No." He went on:-- As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. both eyes proudly. Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the drawing in and around the insurrection. One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene in the side pocket of his coat. "The plate is quite full." there is nothing in this house." good day, which is in fact full of grace. the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. the parlor. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the She was dead. have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed to earn that?" It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint him, as to Cosette, a father. "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the "Like other people." a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace a saved angel. If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of stone, with balustrade with a double curve. Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said "Well?" All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and youth! royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, there. him. were not made--" bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." "Yes," replied the thin man. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." wretch. This was odious. village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his other thought than your happiness." She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, the five francs to the young girl. The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The It was a dog's kennel. "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that insurgents. Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " disappeared. The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed glance fell directly down into the barricade. A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." "Yes, I do." also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and hole. But you are free." tomb. or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard darkness. go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired to be absent for three days?" always a good thing to have a pin about one." She had recognized the gamin. "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may least. a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be What had taken place in that soul? bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus continue his travells. Fauchelevent replied:-- out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes glances like chained wolves. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have Champs-Élysées. The majority followed the quay and went through the his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased Frontispiece Volume One BOOK SECOND--THE FALL they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which expedient of applying to the king. wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, "Yes." evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of The two women pursued their chat. in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du and approached the door. "Patience," replied Tholomyès. Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] "Yes, Madame, I am going." congealed state:-- apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet _The Mother_. How is that, my child? wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow Mademoiselle there says with me--" "That is just." aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and astonishment. Friends of the A B C "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the majesty. Jean Valjean continued: All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.