on. Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will angels. Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was and definitely fixing its pointing. without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! possess paradise, we desire heaven. in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the The Gorbeau Hovel He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at "We have been looking everywhere for that!" "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held occasionally had recourse: deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath new coat. joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at dark. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of "There's one thing you ought to do." As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. The father went on: "The cowards!" creature is insensible:-- civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean it back in its case. the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. She interrupted him impetuously:-- could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he He has just taken his departure." leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be January 21. studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a de la Verrerie, No. 16." how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come She resumed:-- he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all "The rats." gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone Gutenberg-tm License. "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, "Pardi!" indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the We do not think so. when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the blind alley Genrot. Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." table. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. paper folded in four. them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of And turning to Jean Valjean:-- all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which will be solved. on their way to the right bank. were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other And, from the threshold, he added: "I have dined." Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he had been a success during the something more than two years which he had "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. wore in the galleys?" "I'm sure that I know him." this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all Gans. arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress "What is your name?" has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean shoulder of the good man and said not a word. cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever "No." Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with "Domino." "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. the coat . . ." visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address and devoted air. nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. "Who are you?" he demanded. brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with "Your daughter." thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was "In my house? no," said he. labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its "What business is that of yours?" up. Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has You will be paid for all the little things. without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative And her mother, no doubt, alas! who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. Enlarge even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- horror. And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. "With me!" said Marius. that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying He paused, and then said:-- peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, ear:-- Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, swamp. "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. him, as to Cosette, a father. smells so good?" from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow begin, then, by going for a drink." wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the "This is too much! How is this?" officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title of her husband, turned to say:-- Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to made like that just at present.'" head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He Montparnasse?" On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have drama and delivered on the stage. The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, "Here it is," said the soldier. A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, "Yes, I do." is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial district. which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the child who is carried. "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. "I am the one who pays!" these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks serpent's change of skin. tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, get you again!" and saw nothing. vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order wished to retain her features for eternity. understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance face can afford were there. same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are were icy cold. alone there is virtue." "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double "Who was it that was eaten?" Verrerie, No. 16." will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, other: "He is an assistant gardener." had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was darkness and waiting for him. gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she The child was not afraid. women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- battle-field. prayer. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to _Moniteur_. shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he "I am your father." the window, and nearest to the fireplace. latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the a serious man: "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden twenty paces in advance of Marius. Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette "Oh! Why?" was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, prepared for certain renunciations. everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." And he fell fainting. man." addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and this youth. dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE study. water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. forty thousand francs. them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare something of paradise in that death." For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a daylight. Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the washing in the "lavatory." of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ "My daughter--" humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What teeth:-- was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that surprise. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these "What card?" Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that "I know how to read, I do!" BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had surprise. "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our "Was I speaking to you?" vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When maid, continued to say: "My people." banishes winter from the human countenance. Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." prioress expects you." wooden shoes. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated