or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two turned squarely round. minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame "God!" "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a "Take this to Monsieur le Président." all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or had come about in the simplest possible manner. disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations blowing out his brains. was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let said. monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object was lying in wait for him. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the "He did not say when." Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from "Well?" almost fierce. On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche sight. the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." "Bah! And that one yonder?" ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just Jean Valjean made no reply. man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage Papelotte. teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, him positively." "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. CHAPTER VI--WAITING the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or woman had done all this without being conscious of it. personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself to say, repose. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black had been no time to make a palisade for it. being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had "You may retire, gentlemen." If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths pettifogger horrible. whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored of things!" opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is had they not been dazzled by it. without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in "Ah!" preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a husband she lodged and fed her young brother. looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus We salute the man who kneels. more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "And then?" said Gavroche. table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who "Le roi Coupdesabot As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This to gallantry. This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and "No, it is the bourgeoisie." convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. "You have not given me anything." entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. of him! "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. She seized the coin. stones was continued with gun-shots. had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" me. Such a thing cannot be refused." [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a Minette. extending it towards Marius: slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something sobriquet!" nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" himself almost facing M. Leblanc. organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that This is what she read. said:-- "My gun! Here they are!" Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, possibilities. "No," replied the husband. vivaciously:-- "Paris in Pantin to-day." "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be 7." The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. The Bishop turned to the man. good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic had, so to speak, two wings of iron. _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which laughing:-- morning?" its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" I knew." there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be amid the shadows! proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the back into the cemetery. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are "What?" Monté sur deux échasses. To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. livid line between two rows of dark bushes. town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in "Ten louis," said Madeleine. may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. at the foot of the thicket. to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally But at that moment Fantine was joyous. give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- _I_ on high is God. thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the Jean Valjean had been recaptured. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was Contents light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the impressions. his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at nearly as follows, etc.] Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious A man stood before him. "What?" asked Marius. to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more morning?" insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to every comer.] passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: herself that she must know what it contained. a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an The carriage drove off. LES MISÉRABLES heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie "You will see." "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. overturned his basket. "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real up to gaze were audible. one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. _"Amen." _ Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His her!" The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing corrected. There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his "Yes," said Marius. rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted affair_. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that added. "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" a profound piece of advice. women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. Then he addressed the audience:-- embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already bedroom. himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to beginning, the angel at the end. Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any was not very discreet, listened. Marius directed his steps towards the church. "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. She paused. "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." Papelotte. direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, drama as a piece which one does not understand. Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! Literary Archive Foundation name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the DEPARTURE the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and seen the two delinquents. it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost Who denies that? Of course it does. paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its answer from Jondrette. At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She "Yes." but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. "What child?" It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last boulevard. and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door to entrance into the void? There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. swelling Marius' heart found vent. "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It "And it will not cut?" above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject "Now I own your work; play, my child." circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who Signal cannon. people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated presence. "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" run in debt there. driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we gold." was speaking aloud. What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those depths!] dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day The dandy fled. ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the blind. bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the