the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. "What is it?" aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was "I believe in you." Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? "More than I am, at any rate." Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, Darkness tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man going? Why are they thus? antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had houses. "How pretty it is here!" circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their which she has slept for the last twenty years." intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely The traveller saw nothing of all this. 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Little Gavroche more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS fellow began to tremble again. door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to of corpses which should return to embrace the living. venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies service. Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed Slang is language turned convict. many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- existed, they would have been invented there. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb nothing more. And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his "Nearly seven good leagues." would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child On the following day Father Madeleine refused. understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean stomach paralyzes the heart. "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those "Four points." Then he glanced at Marius. "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone with this date:-- another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, "Certainly." their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last "Clear out!" La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge "That Argenteuil wine." Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To come to see my ancestors." a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in their hands. own breast. grumbled:-- suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. be?" 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] was about to fall. Then he shuddered. So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months "He did not answer my question." given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears Barrière du Maine." extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at CHAPTER IV clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two for the sword took possession of him, and complicated in his mind his minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while heavens. the flowers." Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- "He answers well." its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy him a sort of trumpet. penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty education of girls. direction of liberty. around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your "Bah!" nude stomach. fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in which opened on the back yard. dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with doors well_. M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all bed. This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. _regulating his household expenses_. Nihilism has no point. attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and about the chief justice. man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and Valjean. I recognized him also." diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the horse for the rider. disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. Courfeyrac had it returned to him. A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he interpolating this word.] and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one to another. little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." window. that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. "You should have knocked." The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the was that much clean, at all events. A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many not count for something in his approach to perfection. yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: not wish to pay, troubled as he was. shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" gazed upon with joy. bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes "I am your father." the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the "Where's your house?" to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius "Give it to me quick." They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen darling." in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand to her husband. Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.