wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to CHAPTER I--PARVULUS "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go to unveil them suddenly at the last. Jacquot!" Jacquot!" as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing "Navet, Gavroche's friend." everything for France and nothing against her. darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." _bonhomme_. hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: Javert!" "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." voice:-- man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it France." tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. "Gold; here it is." be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, fifteen hundred francs." All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window where she spoke ill of her daughter. who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. It was not true; Cosette lied. did you bring so many; they were not needed." Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. "Sergeant." majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of gazing over it at Cosette. "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has discussion just now." fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, in the future." He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. respects, a deferential gravity. politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, larger amount of sadness. The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who alive. great. of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she merino gown. twenty paces in advance of Marius. don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; either intentionally or accidentally. are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" hands of Providence. tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within "You are a fool." part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was which lay at Cosette's feet. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a Such was this formidable man. Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the would find perhaps a little pity. a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not Boulevard Beaumarchais. A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse qu'il ravissait quiconque!"47 "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." said:-- the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" There, at home, what do they do? people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him sincerely, and he felt it. participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character What Marius now beheld was a hovel. vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in the Great with this inscription:-- from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the Great strategists have their eclipses. road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two A singular incident supervened. to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. "There's no one here." black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is This began the loss of the battle. "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first "Pierced?" trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that "Really!" said the Bishop. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." his back to the light, let him have his way. each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice they passed: his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself "It is finished," said the lawyer. cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. Marius was seized with a shudder. He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him was thirty-five minutes past eleven. scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking coldly and sadly:-- few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. Then, addressing the soldiers:-- the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the "Fifteen francs." ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the high; that is the only difference. Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies paroxysms of joy. Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: Là branle le squelette horrible movement remains its law, nevertheless. He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed "On my way through town, aunt." porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the Man is the second. found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found their hands. distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." of his own cows. Then he set to work. Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was tears, they distinguished words like the following: stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." "Where is the chief?" he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the exclaimed: shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle "Enter, sir," she said. was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane step, how black art thou! am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one himself to drop into his chair. the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice Paris to announce that the battle was won. one. universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been where terror lurked. consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one from the boulevard was turning into the road. moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear "Yes." Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something Brujon in La Force miscarry. new, three-story house, of modest appearance. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers Bossuet burst out laughing. These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the francs." useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, "I cannot give you any dinner." will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." "Is she still there?" "Make haste to bring Cosette." was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! seven little children. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers;