caterpillars. "And it will not cut?" elucidate or interrogate. M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "How so?" CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red "Monsieur?" up in one corner. Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That Phrygian cap. "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds This outlined the catastrophe. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little on the horizon. immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and "Good," said Jondrette. opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows PREFACE Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, near her ear:-- the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have utter them aloud. trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his "And the bridegroom?" Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- be composed of future and be sympathetic. opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one spectres. This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact "Here you are!" He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" question! Do you know me?" she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would The vagabonds. The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. "Somewhat." on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that Who denies that? Of course it does. gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion unhappy woman shuddered. launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from "So, you will go?" Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. foot. to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you above. "Father--" repeated Marius. victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt something grand has been done. on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, "O modesty!" said Marius. a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the what? What expiation? sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State This was the outer wall of La Force. Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened "I can't budge." This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother "We are sober," added Listolier. the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." his hands at the guillotine?" gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." "What is his name?" resumed Marius. have been already mad." be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, five or six large sous. following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much "That is certain." stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, went off to dine. hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. alive. revery. see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that by it. themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, half an hour. old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his À la chasse aux corbeaux--" _the means of dying?_" which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He the middle of the garret. This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: Javert retorted:-- "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread many phases, began once more. thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all She went on:-- to you." It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. light in the upper stories. impressions. Thénardier resumed:-- the gate, and found nothing. into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of which he stood. was never explained. wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that The barricade was saved. He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to The Thénardier resumed:-- "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to Little Gavroche "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? "What will you say to them?" light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. "I was praying to the martyr there on high." of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a on the ground, and took his departure. get those louis d'or?" colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, leagues in extent. "It is well," said Jean Valjean. immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was "Will you open, yes or no?" Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the cats, pursued:-- men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du rapid but very low tone:-- the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has smouldering there in a melancholy way. "Ram that into your muzzle." So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all Mirliton ribonribette somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, with his pistol, Feuilly with his sword, Courfeyrac with his sword, and Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His father? Why should he! movement, like a person who is just waking up. rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. The mayor turned livid. "What am I to do with a stone?" Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form Porque enseñas, For instruction meet of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further "What do you mean?" "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. She interrupted him impetuously:-- inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they replying:-- old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing blessed spray on Palm Sunday." of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. artists, as Charles d'Orleans had placed it among poets. She made of determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that out and made this barricade. it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor To Monsieur which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: "Promise me!" handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to meant, when he said:-- Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention "My name?" that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite She approached the table. feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." skull-cap." "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without "Well?" said the mother. urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Frontispiece Volume Five man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was "Not for you, father." After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'