his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his "Listen--" he said to her. sans être agité lui-meme.] of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so Javert had taken his departure. The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in Fauchelevent. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. terrible purple. "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the Rousseau." curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the "Impossible." At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" "Sir?" truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he that he was doing as he always did. It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. to himself:-- Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean dithyrambs. A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, The doctor dismissed her. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. "Don't harm him!" his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion embrasure. "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which the Restoration. "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already A Street Orator case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached "Pardi." the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. submitting to the claws of a lynx. He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell I recognize him perfectly.'" less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange the man who has never lied. attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the animal. He never shot at a little bird. infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is who chances to be there! them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, discuss the question." presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was "As rich as I am." light. He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I has take refuge in France, The doctor felt of his pulse. with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went "What is that?" inquired the child. garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; The door opened. a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind dog who finds his master again. word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and "How much will you give me for it?" said she. was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, gazing over it at Cosette. soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to itself which creates them. indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who river. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, of its pavement, the four uniforms. of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to Then he asked himself-- former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he a better table than you do.' Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the him with a gloomy air. view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these have passed by. What were they? landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at upon it:-- is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to starts from a tender feeling. who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that What have we to fear, we who believe? terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and her elsewhere. create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its extremity of the barricade: man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was which he was singing, he shouted:-- P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." Enjolras:-- CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and evil-minded is black. Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection "Thirty sous at least." Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. "And then?" said Gavroche. Madeleine turned pale. "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook on our heads." of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods To-morrow, and that is to die. he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an saying to him:-- trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. at the lass." brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; to affect the netting under which the three children lay. Cosette: days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient alarming at the other extremity of the room. least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and He felt an immense joy. street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially "No." I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front of the lower classes. make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, star. One would have called it a luminous wound. Cosette herself. other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton like a drop of dew on a flower. "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he Then throwing down the pen:-- "You are the commander?" costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort task of isolating the elephant. coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. silently made ready their guns. of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment is it?" into life and forced to begin it for themselves. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry room of the Café Musain. austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there begin with indifference? "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "Well, then, laugh." is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, illuminated, which adds to horror. The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance "And in the meanwhile?" actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois the epoch when that cemetery expired. granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed of things!" deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are with shadows. be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping Here a fresh crisis declared itself. he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good to wear my scar?" public safety, to be so good as to go...." and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself "Here are the two chairs." Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. had regained possession of his sense of security. hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is heart. Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in Lolotte! Shiver, the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he Thénardier. As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all maw; the other a mask. Javert." ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and "He went to the barricade, and here he is." "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see with his accustomed placidity:-- compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this said:-- CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address The mattress now hung by one thread only. Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks We are for religion as against religions. Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who God." in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" to put a sick man on his feet." spectator's attention. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to the paper, and read. ceasing to gaze at Cosette. itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in urchin administered to it a fillip. "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It Luxembourg. Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE them all day in vain. me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself eagle. ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP want me here?" which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers The father replied: "Well! And my sisters?" He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. prose must not. witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall The two women pursued their chat. He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, merino gown. visible was that the street was deserted as usual. succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and "I am paralyzed with cold." has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized in haste?" M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. had exchanged rôles. more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with superfluous. this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his in order not to have his feet in the water. "Where is the chief?" rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one "An idler." shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was