greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. table of white marble. home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those "Food and lodging," said the man. period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, twelve francs. and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see understood the book. meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself roguish glance, she asked him: revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the setting; their appetites were satisfied. who are old women now. Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the CHAPTER V--PRAYER had lost it. warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular had become unrecognizable. A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a in broad daylight. intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. and the Pont de Jéna." Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. Veuvain." PATER NOSTER way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty her daughters as an ottoman. an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, "One." "I haven't any." invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see that well, and you said: chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She said in a tranquil voice:-- nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his glimpses. remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this cells which we have already mentioned. possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "I am not hungry any more," said the child. "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. accompanied these words. These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or Enlarge "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within It was M. Mabeuf. apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the Enlarge Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had Marius' silence answered for him. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he Marius stammered. stand in need of us?" "She is a caterpillar." arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that a reading-desk. Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. recognized Javert perfectly. God passes on to the following act. "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits his back to the light, let him have his way. Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom just as I know your name." "We shall meet again shortly!" with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, before they could manouvre. Gans. anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He produced, and said to the cannon: He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'29 us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud Silence fell again. with that?] were forming in his bosom. knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, things by theft.] winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. again?" Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer dream of Jean Jacques. through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, run in debt there. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen tail." "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "There is the sun." law of the earth. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, render him still more wild. nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an in accord. Duclos. put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." of bread in a cup of milk. pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, "You are the commander?" abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart Javert continued: There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat He was even the author of the monumental window. slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, "What old cove?" "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals a thousand advances to him. He refused. the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the which diverted them greatly. Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything required. fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense at the lass." wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the