years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, All this was yawning before him. work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer morrow?" CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances Thénardier warmed his feet. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced men!" he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution decisive questions. to the realities of life. civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of CHAPTER IV their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which He paused, and then resumed:-- villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge silver wire and orange flowers. her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off "But I can surely hire a horse in the village?" If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the and he condemned it also. The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back marriage. was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after Norman legends call the Alleurs. much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided A few words more. called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious Basque announced: never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as add:-- cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. Universe. He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! _winter salon_. than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through to Gavroche. work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and Then he asked himself-- longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more he had been appointed Bishop of D---- there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical "Do you know them?" without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which "Then--" child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty portress. suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader "Oh! oh!" "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will "Well! And my sisters?" to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, sacrifice forty?" And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, continued. fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more and it was a long time before he recovered from it. chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing himself:-- floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to he would have expired with grief. on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also A terrible situation! to be touched. combination with lack of discipline. So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey ill? Do you suffer?" CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their "Who goes there?" us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, "Answer me as though I knew nothing." thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would And he rushed headlong to the window. have passed by. What were they? "Are you there?" He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a ingrates, his country and myself." large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the scruples. production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in is itself an imitator. "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in "I say no, my goo--" large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is clatter. "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which She hummed:-- Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" This shout put an end to the discourse. burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not Republicans are like." "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the other." botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in they were making sport of him. ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed home." agony: experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so whom he met. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a you destroy the lair Crime. be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in "Yes." This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular quickly." "Not particularly." at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals "Yes." night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a them than the Spanish captain. Javert gave that profound start. bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor now beginning. even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They francs, and his handkerchief. Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Marius gazed intently at him: "He is absent. I am here in his stead." a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities Titlepage Verso "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." crimes! And what faults! under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the "I am she," replied Cosette. they say if I did not go?" One of the mattress ropes was cut. The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken shall be innocent. having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive "But--" volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered "Where are you going, you rogue?" disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. set out across the thickets. the profundity of his bow. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities window. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was "By messieurs the wagoners." the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. used, this table was free. "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We anything but a latch, either by day or by night." and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be collaboration of some one who is working above man. I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their to me that Paris is waking up." Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, get you again!" the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their France." the skirt of his coat. The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. should have no dwelling place! The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right young man like a sword. They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not poltroon!" CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which CHAPTER I--WELL CUT the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had sentiments. the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified beginning:-- eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A "We owe three quarters rent." comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was think of my daughter's first communion!" gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of the grave. and a stove?" laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of motionless. Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The terminated with these lines:-- "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. his wants. we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind Javert continued: We have never understood this sort of objections. bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the to death, made his escape twenty years ago. completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been that it searched. well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and "What is the meaning of this?" fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a who finds himself on travells For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically Jean Valjean turned pale. made. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content This noise made Valjean turn round. myself, too." prison. nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set bridle. with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come as his trousers. _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few establishment. what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. Enlarge which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems rehabilitation of Napoleon. "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, chamber and that it should be he. decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the together," and a tin box full of cartridges. Jean Valjean turned pale. Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in tone: there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- pavement. others,--would have been a disorganized flight. observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the bewilderment inspired by the place. "I will dictate." those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and "It must be, said a warrior." cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, him, shouting to the elder:-- would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, The soldiers seized her by the arms. "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. "There is nothing there." lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this "The grave-digger?" She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, was burning there. the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about the people of Queyras!" charming, happy face. something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think interdicted. probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are garden." unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because Curé." word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the conscious that he was becoming impious. happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was noise. "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several "Why not?" CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower."