Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said a failure gazing at that triumph, love. end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a Thénardier continued:-- them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? "His name is Jean Valjean." was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- And they burst out laughing. Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly wanting in respect towards the group. back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, "Listen, Théodule." on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, know, and that I'm positive." a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds the King of Rome?" Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." On the following day Father Madeleine refused. lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid only the law when entire. No! no charter!" a failure gazing at that triumph, love. the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. respectful:-- Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage plant; if you are a man, be love. the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central occupied themselves with the question of happiness. their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. "Yes." approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his thieves what the lion is to the jackal. cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" the children's doll!" supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is occasionally had recourse: dinner." cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They "Agreed." effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. in the side pocket of his coat. name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, and searched. to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, boots, you five-louis jade." In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did where she spoke ill of her daughter. which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons table was singing hers. "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, boulevard. near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the flower. A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a the paper, and read. a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother Such was this curious house. in a growth of nettles. committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the bier. "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a astonished a man." pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same The boy surveyed her. This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be This was the idea:-- made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a behind her. "Like yourself, reverend Mother." "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made "Why?" that he uttered:-- moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De "What time is it?" arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is the chimney-piece. case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, "Well, it is raining. What then?" known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had was Montparnasse. any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron smoke. contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne the other. death. place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. oneself, one is firmly held." the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our receive me either." horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any fall like a ripe fruit. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, "I really beg you a thousand pardons." It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT "You may retire, gentlemen." life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, hands a terrible cap which he had. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. Why? the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of The policemen and agents recoiled. Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that in motion. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery again?" profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms Pratiquez la vertu, demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious His confidence having increased, he added:-- streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her intelligent towns. good." thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her terminated with these lines:-- more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the should be omitted. "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a Sometimes he asked her:-- proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something of his day. you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. "At your feet," said the voice. Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were has entered here. Who are you, sir?" dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a cover his hands with kisses. At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures reserve. There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed experienced a moment of happy coquetry. approach us with offers to donate. Madeleine glanced about him. thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. "I'm filling my basket, citizen." The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. things, the true historian mingles in everything. earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century has entered here. Who are you, sir?" menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served The stranger said tranquilly:-- the door. Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, the powers of the human tongue. to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, it was least expected. Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though "I will give it," said the mother. tilbury that I own." degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's The child was not afraid. The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon suspended from the ribbon. you understand, you assassin?" skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another The early days passed in this dazzled state. possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he "Well, doctor?" which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the man's self-sufficiency. other of Brujon's machinations. mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. "Peuh!" he exclaimed. heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound woman. wretch, by that innocent being. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the Quite the reverse. watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where inexpressible hatred. prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the frown. All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences instead of _thou_ for the next three months. summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when in his diocese during the Hundred Days. I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the "He is coming!" great age permitted. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment child." was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." prison corporal. "That I wish to marry." Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- of the air, like trees and stones. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of shoulder of the good man and said not a word. which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the She murmured:-- These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having shadows. PREFACE Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing Saint-Antoine. almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to stones. There is not a minute to be lost." complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint,