road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in pillars of the market. that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some once more at the Luxembourg. orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon of that day. inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, sewer. brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful "They are mice." your trousers pocket." is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never own breast. heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was one like an angel, the other like a goose. age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- sleeve:-- "Who is there?" And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no Bishop's palace. sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order boots, you five-louis jade." separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has insolence of others. He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm "Really!" said the Bishop. flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. show me your money." sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We And she sprang to his neck. pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many And he offered him his hand. capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of "The English," answered the prowler. morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had convict." He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I of life been established between this celestial little creature and that _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has in the most barefaced manner. and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. her hand opened the door. The Fall to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. "To see your father." The father replied: frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would the unknown. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. Rose in Misery He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" called _Madame la Colonelle_. M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, you live now?" Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which must give air to the English army." A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There rattling of this sheet of paper. "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that Jean Valjean approached. she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." The stranger resumed with a smile: then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front procure a dynasty. to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the than he should guard himself. silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to become real things! There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a work again. They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not francs. supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel bit into it, muttering:-- letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." pronounced by that child. the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance Jean Valjean continued: The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. passed under the Restoration. shortens,--the Gospel's. Marius, "and in what condition they are." Ah, good gracious!" child. little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very checker-board." judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the Jean Valjean continued: hermetically again. a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was "That is exactly so." be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, is dead, is he not?" sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl step. nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" "Received thy cart." rough stone, and a general of a porter. Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful "You saved my life," said the man. street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. A fire had been quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides He answered:-- Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into dear." "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Cosette, that man is an angel!" well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he "And when do you start?" in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of tell me one hundred and nine francs?" moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom 67 (return) [ A short mask.] estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is guards a secret like a child. her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat "I thought he was buckled." education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the always turn on their peg. him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the other of Brujon's machinations. evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte hereabouts!" billows of the invisible; he shouts. behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which from it. of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this "Anarchy is entering this garden." And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "Look at the water jug. It is empty." on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a that "she had ways about her." petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop "I shall call her Catherine," she said. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. he survived after he was shot. What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had replying:-- Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had breasts."] degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President He went on:-- much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort PREFACE Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was "Mathematically!" Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY Thénardier warmed his feet. woman had done all this without being conscious of it. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG "On this bench?" she went on. He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the name was Jean Valjean." "I tell you to speak loud." that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof She hummed:-- moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a take only very short steps. As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is Éponine turned to the five ruffians. set foot in the house of either of them in my life." Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice CHAPTER II--ROOTS when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, be she!" served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the it was formidable for that epoch. "How much shall you need?" in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that question! Do you know me?" chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As harness over. silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, was changing its aspect every moment. However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand "No." of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference "What's that, peasant?" This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and The father rose. Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called "Go away," said Jean Valjean. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, head struck him as decidedly suspicious. Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, Title: Les Misérables able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the