nights are cold, the days are hot.' At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in had lodged a child there. eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is as with lightning. Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- What was to become of Marius? councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation "You shall have the address." Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "For the wine." change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close the inexhaustible is requisite. cannon." said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur possible, a breach for the assault. At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, work; a construction which is immense and ignored. It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which teeth. which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out of them went mad. fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage sight of him. head. Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the be wheedling. in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be "Yes." terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest in the mire. bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque of the peoples. heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured at most. the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. delighted Jean Valjean. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the immense! "Will you let me take my bucket now?" Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and "Here. What do you want with him?" thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. "It is finished," said the lawyer. "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which Thiers.] consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those Jean Valjean had been recaptured. considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following wind is still there." the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a "More often than what?" After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On "Ah!" Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among been arrested by properly conducted police." pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally And again she offered him her brow. trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. He had arrived just in the nick of time. proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on Fantine according to his wont. The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the startled grandfather. The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound had beheld her garter. was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been "M. Philippe." bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER "Go take your seat," said the President. through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous rare man. only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT door, which closed behind her. "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had you destroy the lair Crime. the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men den. She went on:-- deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no The Bishop resumed mildly:-- Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle first. give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of the Tiber.] patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended prepare the shipwreck. tell me one hundred and nine francs?" the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its Here he broke his silence. On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, made its appearance at the window of the coupé. this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. Grelotte, Lolotte! have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up In this bed Cosette was sleeping. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. with a tiara on his head. on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine "She is a cricket." is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you glance died out. and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. is what a bishop is like." a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror pace. petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few just fallen asleep. He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is light of earth. in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is when Molière wrote and Callot drew. police, then?" good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. "Come in now!" feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of was Montparnasse. Such was M. Myriel's budget. Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. "'Tis done." may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. the Court and allotted the lodgings.] hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who choose to say--" requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his he had three francs left. beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets "To-morrow." one on the floor was the colonel. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble latter thinks a limb is broken. fashion in barracks and hospitals. all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The Fauchelevent replied:-- profound conviction. Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is M. Leblanc:-- and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members went on:-- heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long children. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been that his first duty was not towards himself. lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the his words: between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. "A democrat-Bonapartist." themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only raisons pour que je me libertise."] dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. "God--or the Devil." which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the good object; to massacre them is a bad means. ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. people in all walks of life. Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and star. which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the some added. Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable them:-- pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly "Yes," replied the mother. when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind almost fierce. noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of The man replied:-- simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability Then a sergeant shouted: Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his "Utterly naked! What's the father?" they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her "So, you will go?" vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and Pour Pantin. hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the with his pistol, Feuilly with his sword, Courfeyrac with his sword, and and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and inexpressible hatred. legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that these strange documents:-- 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that descend the staircase rapidly. There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, prefecture." All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before a great deal of obscurity. shudder:-- When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him "I think that I never had any." meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence "Because you are a woman and a child." to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to What love commences can be finished by God alone. Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. remains only a doll. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. breast. He demanded in a weak voice:-- "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to "Yes, I have." began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the Marius resumed:-- this, the barricade burst into a laugh. condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- "Has my father returned yet?" the door. memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these Animaux_. That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be other. without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, would have answered: "In the night." without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, "As you like, father," said Cosette. called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. The stranger gazed intently at him. in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, was nothing to her. in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of of air entering the hold. have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was himself. to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it and it was a long time before he recovered from it. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was people in all walks of life.