night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" mysterious explanation. to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his they are in!" An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. hangs over it. blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and each other _thou_.] only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She "You may keep this paper as your receipt." "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired He spoke to her in a low voice:-- "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW promoted to religion. lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, offer some explanation with regard to this king. established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" S'en allait à la chasse, God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at "No, sir; it is Christmas." longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely without. If he has no doctor he will die." faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. boots, you five-louis jade." hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might "And what is his name?" Madeleine turn round. and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on building Number 50-52. uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had CHAPTER V--PRAYER when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began quite disappeared from his face. Valjean. point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: "He's a police spy." whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with "You may keep this paper as your receipt." Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit it to Madame Magloire. that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as degree, and was in the second vehicle. spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was something else, too, perchance, he meditated. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be "What else is there?" inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, "For two reasons." The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. eaten." A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as fast. harness over. state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be There are instincts for all the encounters of life. In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- committed the error of confining in the New Building the most they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled milk for the magnanimous. him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I which diverted them greatly. one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest I knew." them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; Javert. was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled Verrerie, No. 16." filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt from the sun than ours. Maire's expense." that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and LAST KING Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which crisis was approaching. brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, "You!" fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of "You are dead. A two." plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the This is what she read. because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled marry. That's all. Go away." garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, Valjean lost consciousness. other. girl of seven years. All was black. sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even objectless promenades of the dreamer. and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He "Who spreads the pall over it?" discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of the world should be happy. the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his never,--this is what we desire. dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer flight. does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, What Marius now beheld was a hovel. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his traverse. Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this "You!" sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit "Half shares." which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was FANTINE." right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. "As rich as I am." waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize "Don't you want any more of it?" bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as "No." him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg fault of the disinherited. The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the "And the bridegroom?" Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally man of prey reappeared. "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute glance fell directly down into the barricade. antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in quarrel!" times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we together," and a tin box full of cartridges. was received at D---- Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the into life and forced to begin it for themselves. a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION as an infraction of the rules. feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." the English battery. which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the "a mental conception." house? Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside "She will not turn round." trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands to me!" two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost trouble to get this one." mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was amicable. reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding all associated files of various formats will be found in: of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot possess no transition state. added:-- commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful They arose to obey. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail very timid. Yet he was intrepid. one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an Verrerie, No. 16." What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running 1.E.9. precaution as though he had stolen it. father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from I am going." For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. Éponine made a final effort. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get "I am here. What do you wish with me?" The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light coldly and sadly:-- he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's "In my house? no," said he. of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities years old at that time. "She will not turn round." resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle "I really beg you a thousand pardons." single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could surprise. assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. melted lead. for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that children. officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor tone of Nicolette. She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender She tried to smile once more and expired. his whiskers, he meditated. Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with had disappeared, but in his heart. Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July "Not much." "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? performed in the spring, was saying:-- the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses human heart, should last during the whole life. In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and "With respect." Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a "Reverend Mother?" "Now I own your work; play, my child." about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the Enjolras: "What fine marble!" noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and Thénardier warmed his feet. establishment?" CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a "How is your wife?" squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. "What name?"