in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I great treats. maw; the other a mask. having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own "She died at daybreak." great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence new, three-story house, of modest appearance. A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he five-story building which separated the two court-yards. He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; of Cavalry, a royalist who embrasure. "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. begin, then, by going for a drink." white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father another sort of explosion. hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a shelter." CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, man was effaced; such is life. cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. "Go and get the child," said he. Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be urchin administered to it a fillip. indifferent matters, in spite of himself. Valjean. wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making A minute more, and they were both in the fire. "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some love with you." Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. "Do you know English?" All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the are the arm-chairs?" timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, something." of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the cause stars to blaze forth there. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; "Théodule, your grandnephew." should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." Tutu, chapeau pointu!53 in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its appeal:-- Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that and sweet, and provoked a shudder. to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." The officer went on:-- Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up wall which faced the tavern:-- the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC recesses of his soul, "Never!" and taking his precautions. Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to There he halted. "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. and spurs the pedestrian. a saved angel. "Agreed." 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the Romainville_. Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. "The English," answered the prowler. "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At laughing:-- He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful "That I may blow that man's brains out." entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known stir, or turn her head. "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" "Embrace me." leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself