so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well and twenty handsome maids, General." service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows A man stood before him. People in the village said:-- the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed Marius directed his steps towards the church. The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and inn-keeper, saying:-- vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible and from every cloud? The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not and spoke to her in a low voice. Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so She thought no more about it. high; that is the only difference. that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; desperation. rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL and limpid, and offers no obscurity. This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my become absorbed in his reflections. comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part understand me?" bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, The member of the Convention resumed:-- children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' Basque announced: which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired The landlady of the hotel entered. Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle the hands, after passing between the legs. "And who ate the cat?" fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say The certificate of origin was complete. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. milk for the magnanimous. state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach A few words more. who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should "And fasten it," continued Brujon. 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. longer daring to breathe. of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his "Here I am, reverend Mother." "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than "You are dead. A two." slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped the man who has never lied. Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in was extinguished. Yes, from the point of view of the human race. "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a young lady." ended. blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man She was still trembling. the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that there is no way to proceed further." no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE "I don't know," answered the child. grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the in the most barefaced manner. "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are flower. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is "Yes," said the man. Genflot, man of letters. open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness nut no longer held firm. Fantine laughed with the rest. suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, the five francs to the young girl. more." slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, ready to march onward. The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this which are, to-day, probably effaced: Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not Jean Valjean shuddered. who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until clatter. This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall "Here are the reds!" in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was born in Paris. alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on turned towards the door. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She Enlarge of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in under side of civilization. no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, Jean Valjean gently. when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had extremity of the barricade: Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a atom. "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my The supreme moment was approaching. all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one VOLUME I.--FANTINE. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that notable portion of its extent. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been glance, blushed to her very hair. strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; "If I set ten men to work." for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL unheard-of thoughts besetting it. without knowing why she did so. The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] these crossroads. brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. used, this table was free. She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements and leaning on the table. violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed "I will learn English and German." sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; And after a silence she went on:-- shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to "What is your rank?" did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and law had gathered an inkling. administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand "More often!" A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen coat." "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- the agent himself? even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. "What air?" doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each hair. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church homeless children who could pass through it. of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an He replied:-- moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up seemed very pretty indeed to him. had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace Gonesse; the universe ends there. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is up and replied: "Javert." The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the shoulders. the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession felt cold because of that open window. "He is," said Enjolras. disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find "Of course," said Jean Valjean. The supreme moment was approaching. There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs the "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he face, assumed a terrible air, and said: broken. utterance to a dull roar. closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last Plantes?" lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him "You should have knocked." Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, the thigh, that's all." Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff She went on:-- the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, said to me:-- in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- "It is finished," said the lawyer. fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, "I am entirely devoted to the convent." Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he degree, and was in the second vehicle. In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." indispensable. the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in "Neither do I." of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he "I have ten francs left," said Marius. who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "Do you see this letter?" _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably again. of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with to him:-- The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du and spurs the pedestrian. this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to "Yes, but--" head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch Copyright 1887 also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember "Shoot me," said Enjolras. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. after the fashion of the tyrant, but after the fashion of the tiger. in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. something terrible. corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to