"I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the mingled with bursts of grape-shot. No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and FANTINE." guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the front of him. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. wait until they are in the street before replying." lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des breakfasting with us, being my father." "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day hungry." hundred horse-power. the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des slang. been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a hear. me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. odious. Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the which had descended to him from his own grandmother. Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than doubtful as to his success. you destroy the lair Crime. not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so À la chasse aux corbeaux--" Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches gendarme. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with to chambers of torture filled the hovel. battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the Courfeyrac with a laugh. again. Pardon me." peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER Hucheloup:-- hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the irreligious act. He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, February. breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who Shot." His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner "It must be, said a warrior." that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I He was troubled from all these points of view. old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." "What child?" was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended It was very narrow. Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the chamber without saying a word. do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of galleys. morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an "Where's your house?" since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, billows of the invisible; he shouts. There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and "There's no one here." taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and And he snuffed out his tiny light. escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling And the whole barricade clapped their hands. him. She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of Cosette's dreams. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular when her face was in repose. At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, hands; she could hardly lift the pail. "That is too much! A government key!" he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy in the battle, bears off all the honor. engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to for him was to die. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: generally close at six o'clock." "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter flattered the other." the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean "No." The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes "His daughter, Célestine." passport. That is what it is like." breaking the silence. into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had Then throwing down the pen:-- of the Constituent Assembly. He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become was Montparnasse. The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there had recurred to him. long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his the room. finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that "Sir?" passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and that he should be there! as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself Animaux_. nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white "So you have a lodging?" made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be "What do you want?" of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES The dandy fled. not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her exclusively to her care. the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by over:-- jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts began to gaze fixedly at the audience. Valjean. The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round his heart:-- He went on:-- Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing have just given you fifteen hundred francs." Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- And Montparnasse went on:-- one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest And she sank down as though on the point of death. that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your Then the abyss. as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the CHAPTER VI--WAITING The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what it was least expected. ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks him pay his fare. S'en allait à la chasse, once more at the Luxembourg. This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, "And who ate the cat?" was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; replied:-- heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that the grave. like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like "No objections." Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I throne. As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean Cosette shuddered. He added:-- in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall understand wrath, but not malice. existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of circumstances. contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words guards who crowned the barricade. in that manner? The Grand Army. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn But Thénardier continued: regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also which is called innocence! It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads the one to give that terrible outcry. for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it "Ten louis," said Madeleine. This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit wall, for fear of alarming her. address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised called upon Marius to come back to reality. person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he On arriving there, he halted in amazement. Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object A few words more. burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his relics of the past. "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched "Nicolette suffices." by a good horse?" rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, "By the way, have you any political opinions?" seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF floated off towards the roof. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and gleam of light fell upon the earth. ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in humble soul loved, and that was all. to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity to me!" Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the France. _Quia nomina leo_." With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against