the portress not to expect him that night. a while longer. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions "What does _Hercle_ mean?" the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as "I will give it," said the mother. Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None there is nothing in this house." The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. All at once he paused. would be terrible." M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each instant later he had fallen asleep. separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An this?" PREFACE creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all inquiring for the mayor. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the dazzled as he gazed upon it. any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate Président only admits public functionaries to them." thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the of things!" was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on "And fifteen sous," added the man. in the grass; hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is "What street?" "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the doubt this. two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a Cromwell. became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one them. common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle anything but a latch, either by day or by night." ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb "Take aim!" formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all and searched. Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed "That is well." explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his inspector and added:-- And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas "Apparently." CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, take any notice of this sad side of his success. who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT chair. but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of "Four points." top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for LETTER TO M. DAELLI subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what "All right," said he. barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind you; have I displeased you?" you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into And he added with dignity:-- That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a "Certainly, sir." themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He Still the little one could not sleep. "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a "I leave this very evening, aunt." is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island "André Chénier!" councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what for me." unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men knocking." virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In "Very good," said Montparnasse. "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far disorganization. Father Madeleine--" requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing window. fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down "The old man added:-- the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I in which she was still pretty. boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening "And then?" said Gavroche. Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild only attached to the bed now by one leg. infested with bandits. Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. And the two children followed him as they would have followed an close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise father? Why should he! chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." is something. Nothing is nothing. In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on wall which faced the tavern:-- When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered in that suicide. century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire happiness within, results social prosperity. man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to on each other, they paid no heed to this. At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a elder Jondrette girl. A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be "What is it?" CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, The man half rose. "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the the sound proceeded. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on recognized old Fauchelevent. short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into your hair tumbled thus." Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her garden." very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint on the recital. She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; The officer went on:-- posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, was stationed above, the French army below. ------ "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with They pressed each other's hands. That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point something, and retraced his steps. of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The "So there is a fair going on here?" furious and humiliated shrugs. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours these treacheries. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We up his horse. me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both emerged. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he "Hey?" from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed to attach it. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before CHAPTER I--WELL CUT quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed could be read in the folds of the flag. lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister "Well, it is raining. What then?" It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with Enlarge which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in vivacious spirits say:-- before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from ingenious judge, the populace. Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. He murmured: when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, "A little." As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around "Who, sir?" oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. the parish of Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; stir, or turn her head. Enlarge Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only "I say no, my goo--" ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an "Ah! Here it is." the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." teeth:-- Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm "And what good does it do to know him?" of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- All voices cried: to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became "Six o'clock," answered Marius. At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. "Who nails up the coffin?" or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should CHAPTER IV that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the "It was mine." Thénardier exclaimed:-- Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, to-morrow. of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned don't know where it is." everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three something of paradise in that death." spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." his whiskers, he meditated. fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." idea:-- List of Illustrations cudgel. "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the CHAPTER I--ORIGIN Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it are using up our ammunition for nothing." The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a high as the houses. and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have Enjolras:-- "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an with me over the children of the people." very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be "What! There is not room for one more?" people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as