Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he from father to son. Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which shoulders. present day represent forty-eight millions. anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. turned away his eyes. execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time that house?" the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had And she put ten louis into his hand. "What person?" this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in hands and rolled noisily on the floor. CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. "At my house." state of alarm. with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with door of ill and opened the door of good. asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give Jean Valjean remained motionless. served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the Marius. perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb "That is good." M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them laughing. of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of were still thirty-seven of them. Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" "No." the tomb were seizing hold upon him. asleep. officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the He! Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at the five francs to the young girl. "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and him, she said:-- He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. "I tell you that it is she. You will see." blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! "Something must be lowered into it." uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. not ill. for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a a millionnaire!" himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet it was impracticable outside and in. attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of each other _thou_.] and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm themselves under shelter." under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she any need of their knowing. Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded doubt this. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des thoughts in these tranquil words:-- clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted door of the priest should always be open." found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in stroke. The same silence. his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always should be governed only by science." direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the much as his cravat:-- wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were LES MISÉRABLES wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden "You're nothing but a bastard." he survived after he was shot. and of gleams full of radiance. pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 "A woman is never a man." obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! was not very discreet, listened. and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like making eyes at you, look." Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, where Cosette was still walking. the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, "Fifteen." which began by the sacrifice of self. "Cosette." remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, about him: Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved the Rue de Chaffaut. Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. "I have nothing." fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a Président only admits public functionaries to them." small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly He was even the author of the monumental window. hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, people who smell bad." swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served Valjean." fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak After a pause he went on:-- reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his strength to stammer:-- destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, There is no more beautiful legend in existence." "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like "For your poor," he said. Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking contented himself with saying:-- evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this The door opened. insulting word to her. and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, "Yes." the empty coffin?" baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to galleys." servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld on high. on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two Fauchelevent replied:-- at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by could hear the octogenarian breathe. This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or Slang is language turned convict. This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; oozing walls,--what declaimers! distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." "No," said Marius. Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. what I am about to dictate to you." painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, "And what's her name?" it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only "Peuh!" he exclaimed. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. Marius' silence answered for him. love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean At that moment, nine o'clock struck. we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious Montparnasse answered:-- the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the Hé! bonjour. Etc.