One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes "My horse has not been watered." of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her stood near him:-- Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of "I will take it." hand with eternal right. "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus cabriolet?" it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make And she presented her other cheek. at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to battle-field. and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the CHAPTER I--ORIGIN as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended "You do not believe in everything." powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the "That is well." "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape The Twilight Decline pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to child." When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES LES MISÉRABLES can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into remarkable inscription:-- CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather "Lovely things we will buy further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of swelling Marius' heart found vent. from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other "Yes." whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he "however, let it go!" the body with respectful awe. should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. "You may retire, gentlemen." played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called crumble and new ones rise. Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of Marius smiled sadly. that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it A minute more, and they were both in the fire. tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, with his accustomed placidity:-- sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was All at once she paused. Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us him positively." incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, "What luck!" said Combeferre. dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure seen. leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! has take refuge in France, of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from combination with lack of discipline. "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are 1830." "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put "Good devils even," said the Bishop. with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and death. of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord viewed it close at hand. Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and second offence. first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that hearing suspended?" acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, Javert did not withdraw. receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come Fauchelevent's turn had come. "You will see." something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. is it?" The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of calm voice: "It is done." other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should "Do you want me to lend you some?" was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to office." in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. and from every cloud? aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be Jean Valjean resumed:-- "It must be, said a warrior." said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade sans être agité lui-meme.] As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The "You have just time to get out by taking to your heels at your best "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly crawled. They were one against sixty. Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. meant, when he said:-- Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER was the Bishop. He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees And he seized Javert's gun. "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the She was shivering. to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive home." "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did "That horse is very much fatigued." in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, foreseeing that he should not dine. policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON dishes." received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been "Peace is happiness digesting." by exhaustion. little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine galleys. speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The low voice said to him: short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will called him Bossuet. In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. And they burst out laughing. "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they think. I can do what I please about it." road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional is broken between one street and another. anything more than an immense dare-devil? he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. the inspector called to him:-- centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At She re-entered the lair. the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society "You shall see!" perceived neither Basque nor the candle. retired into the darkness. continue his travells. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender Barrière du Maine." garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who clatter. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING Pour Meudon. At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left cudgel, which was lying on the ground. "writing to her." a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. "Where is he?" thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. waiting for you." the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements humanity." The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the "In the elephant!" That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went near the hearth. The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is threshold. The two women began to chat. He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to "Why did you not bring it at once?" CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES distant sound of marching. managed? Where is this coffin?" jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip a strange and bitter aftertaste. In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the should not hear his breathing. however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged Gorbeau house had come to nothing. old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for "How old is she?" old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a "The English," answered the prowler. "She is going on three." CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT barricade, and...." recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the "Sir, have pity on me." The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be Grantaire. invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing building. Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, floor. gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group perfectly white!" dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, of a lover." of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" "Well, I don't mean that you shall." He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the and soul like a north wind. not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been drama and delivered on the stage. with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely she is one," replied the other. he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, unprecedented one to him. However, the inn-keeper did not give up. Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under But here are the conditions." Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped