"The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful "Do you want me to lend you some?" "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the "What?" isn't a sou." the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two new, three-story house, of modest appearance. francs." greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping this is what died away in the gloom:-- By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. S'en allait à la chasse, When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE three times rapidly without uttering a word. material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole "Yes!" barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were During those hours of waiting, what did they do? citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called "Hey?" said Gavroche. "And with his goody-goody air!" hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, Thénardier! Now do you know me?" "I leave this very evening, aunt." squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then The child entered the hut. woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the so. the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which "Welcome, citizen." not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep them. greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be revolutions, which are called riots. four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." a reading-desk. She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' the houses. "What?" How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was man's part to wish that love should lead to something. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs carried to the first floor. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is "You have saved my life. Who are you?" "But--" sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly and charity. sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the of movement for the death of Being. recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her sentiments. rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to night. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. He was two years younger than Bossuet. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by Marius looked at the thumb. He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be "That is true," said Théodule. The reader will recall them: mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a provided himself. been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop "All day long?" One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to VOLUME I.--FANTINE. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred "What is it?" empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the "That's true," said Bossuet. "Well?" of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He Yes or no?" grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." Now get out of this scrape if you can!" "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why formidable shrug of the shoulders. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her five or six large sous. Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who "There!" said Guelemer. And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. 'pon my word!" their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of "I will go." and set the candlesticks on the table. sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened "Have you clothes?" The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." "A very important thing." "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church day." "Let us break in the door!" "So you mean to enter this house?" which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius charming young lady, also." 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the the evening. that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern. Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to though talking to himself:-- that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had profession." "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES up his horse. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all The brat had passed through the crack. gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. myself." The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. obey me prettily." absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to VOLUME II.--COSETTE the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the work and an excess of punishment. What was to be done? to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation Cromwell. him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, "Besides, this is not the time for them." "His son?" said the porter stupidly. them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad WAGRAMME "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of Javert continued:-- Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on band of zinc. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be stomach paralyzes the heart. of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own the skirt of his coat. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the M. Madeleine replied gently:-- look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which being sketched out. appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably second soul, the right. crocodile will furnish some idea: with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, about something else. It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the de la Chanvrerie. the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on Let us not exaggerate, this cherub of the gutter sometimes has a shirt, you know!" To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said "You have not given me anything." I recognize him perfectly.'" to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the the table. and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her of that day. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- fashion in barracks and hospitals. window. girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, He was absorbed, in fact. of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. The Bishop sighed deeply. stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of garden," said he. cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the "That is well." "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid emerge at nightfall and in disguise. shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. the centuries, halos of civilization. servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still "And I know how to write, too!" intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to much the worse for that head." "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, animal. He never shot at a little bird. of hurling a rock. ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from The married pair disappeared. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! They had gone to bed in silence. the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent "If you set two men to work?" permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which lines even at the present day. distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs takes off his hat. dead man at the third-story window. "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. confounded again with the invisible. midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is The lad asked for no further enlightenment. It was inauspicious. his toes projected were visible. into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love represent? The assassinated sage. bars. a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" a frightened air. He continued:-- has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has The little boys stared at him in surprise. "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is "No." Little Gavroche in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an the meantime, so that it shall not run away." past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself through the greater outrage." ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: "No, sir." somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month "What then? Finish." "Double-six." to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. blinded, as it were, by virtue. arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting Then turning to the elder:-- rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and we attack it, and we try to kill it. obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How works. See paragraph 1.E below. The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and of enthusiasm. a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, were still thirty-seven of them. "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can and fell to thinking about his father. with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "I have made an enormous mistake." broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. gravity:-- midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be this youth. At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those CHAPTER I--WELL CUT feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and The little boys stared at him in surprise. on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your she was trembling. should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. remained wide open. and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. Time was passing; he must act quickly. The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a Marius' silence answered for him. "Carry those duds away."