bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The Armé, No. 7." "You?" "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days new-comers are treated. which was particularly dangerous. second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right certainly unexpected. abdicates from suffering? more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from He bent over and picked up the purse. had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he He made no reply. have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly dangerous to have extremes meet. were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in Ça Ira. word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes a quittance from the past. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. Thénardier replied:-- J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. "She died at daybreak." into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The A singular incident supervened. very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. "It's my move." red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name "What did the doctor say?" Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two pavement under his feet, but only mud. to God. courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member Marius made a movement. on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly shook a counterpane out of your window?" shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his The man approached and gazed down upon her. is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these Cosette became angry. At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs Who were these Thénardiers? eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the household. imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous revolution with a shade. level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating derived from it? it. the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to The poor child passively held her peace. continue his travells. present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart Cosette. and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have accomplished by a simple elevation of level. This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" And who, with gentle hands, do clear when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found "Do you know German?" Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had formations are indestructible. to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." of a lover." and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." service." One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. 'pon my word!" the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy little lead sword from a box behind her. aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the Marius took the letter. seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the what made me run so." "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? thought he had seen was the face of Javert. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an "No?" who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of one." Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions into the street!" seemed to be listening. "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" into life and forced to begin it for themselves. things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. "Go," said Jean Valjean. This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but he had expected. everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, moment when nudity becomes indecent. What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings enormous, ENORMOUS dog." ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising in compliance with any particular paper edition. thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed He was utterly routed. sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, "You have murdered that woman." "Immediately." heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing "The gentleman!" "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. a frightened air. He continued:-- with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. "Nicolette suffices." with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness one thing only, innocence. without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, The Bishop sighed deeply. willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go his family." on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE read]:-- his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of conscientious. Argus snored all night long. Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.