Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there them:-- "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the "No!" men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due affair, entrusted with this same function. The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing such an expression, is to be the conqueror! that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy "Keksekça?" might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human "philanthropist" had left with him. mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. "trap" of the bride. course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods an expression of thanks. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. "He is dead." two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the Then she fainted. that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, "Ah! ah!" One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary us. He will give in." not so. and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what she might not see him wipe his eyes. During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a M. Leblanc uttered not a word. the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There "Admit him," he said. that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer much older than the other. admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze him:-- apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an immense! pained to feel that perspiration. the remark which we have just read:-- to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It "Ten louis," said Madeleine. the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of skull-cap." piece stolen from the little Savoyard. "Yes," said the mother. A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to "Admit him," he said. compassion for the old man. and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came man's part to wish that love should lead to something. silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our trifles of straw and cocoanuts. purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some went and came from one room to another. suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when NAPOLEON IS MADE He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, quite as much. "I have the address." suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. one takes a lancer. Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and do not abandon the people." washing in the "lavatory." thoughts in these tranquil words:-- soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In according to the hour. I was furious, and I informed against you." up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: that our intentions are not evil." father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We much older than the other. her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING The Auvergnat was snoring. come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the "There is a ring in the stone." ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. "Do people die of it?" implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, He strode off in the direction of the markets. imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought "Really!" said the Bishop. "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately height of their bodies. of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these how to get in. the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. table was singing hers. attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his "Why not?" The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, of having been grandson of Louis XV." like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL This was the man for whom Marius was searching. them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her "What is the name of yonder man?" Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" all that horror. then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist had disappeared, but in his heart. aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- from the sun than ours. they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. "Yes." of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. "The Petit-Picpus convent." could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never service. The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection The brat had passed through the crack. rare man. of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had There are six of you; I represent the whole world." and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of "I am very cold," she replied. onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, calm voice: in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. child." Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie with the night. ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love constantly reappears in it. form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners He reflected for a moment. quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris blossomed forth from the twilight. lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him limped a little:-- feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole "Hush! Thou knowest it!" him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an still resisting, is expending all his blood. sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. only bird which bears up its own cage. delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in He sprang out of the tilbury. and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman pronounced by that child. might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. To God. for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. by a good horse?" fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and man. Each of us can profit by it." at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that child." du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I all, intermittences of hope. "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, understand me?" not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the and watched their play with a melancholy air. is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of These four shadows were the four men. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after One evening he had a singular apparition. They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he followed. old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch Jean Valjean searched his pockets. He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more passed. languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that be seen: he was not a young man. road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for at Beure, are tolerably large.' once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards imagine that you will be here to-morrow." Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Jondrette the father:-- "Yes, sir." He went away utterly overwhelmed. metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year his glance dropped to the four uniforms. Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his that room, and that would disturb her." living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, touching thing. which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. "Smile." of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, and began to shout: "Help!" around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. Force. "What is it?" she asked. She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the interpolating this word.] The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not event of the worst, Thermopylæ. call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken On returning to his room, he communed with himself. those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous laugh and sing. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the "I have the address." him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her "Alone?" morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. Montparnasse answered:-- "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three Frontispiece Volume Five legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into "The father turkey-cocks so grave precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" of air entering the hold. At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! 1830." thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of then he returned. out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom "And fasten it," continued Brujon. a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and "Who was your leader?" They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. "Heavy?" than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot precisely the idea of which I was in search." had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people.