She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's the hall was sparely lighted. entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans hand." imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the 1.F. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is Government." was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia was stationed above, the French army below. change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred And he seized Javert's gun. M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, cry. Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor Parisian." [_pantinois_.] jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct ask of you." painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. crouching down like a terrified dog. "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was "The grave-digger." feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is The stone was still there. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more gleam. clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it Little Gavroche your ladies flowers!" she cried. "Where are we going?" He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace required now." A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her Sometimes he asked her:-- peremptory fashion. good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, though they had known beforehand where that figure was. of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy galleys. still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which none the less, a vision. "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce The Bishop clapped his hands. as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that The grave-digger walked on in front of him. the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre She paused. "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." He cried to Cosette:-- approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil muttered: "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and I know all about it." CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each is! The idea! I want to see my child!" "Seize him!" said Thénardier. lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the "Caught!" He had arrived just in the nick of time. It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, like a drop of dew on a flower. Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent Cosette's mother continued:-- There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. to ask you something." inspector and added:-- which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. teeth. Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed glow of those salamanders of the fray. to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" fugitives. itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the himself to Laigle de Meaux. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time "Do you know English?" sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean The stranger said tranquilly:-- then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the Tou tou tou said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands happened? had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was flowers before man cut stones. violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new nowadays!" confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie always turn on their peg. rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked That moment arrived. He hastily relighted his candle. deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole Bahorel answered:-- They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced The barricade was captured. is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which "Yes." of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful unhappy woman shuddered. It was not worth while to place a lion there. Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to The wig-maker turned pale. here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. adventure in the ideal. "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This He had just found his clap of thunder. "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the contented himself with saying:-- exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN black night. all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, born in Paris. under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in hand:-- which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as "There's going to be a row!" winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, not there."' And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. She began to reckon on her fingers. bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades "M. Madeleine!" The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the respectful:-- of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man the hospital. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the She turned her head and rose to her feet. constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, its neck. horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She "Reverend Mother!" rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same Jean Valjean suspected nothing. Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. LES MISÉRABLES He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and of hurling a rock. nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable Then he went out. crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that "To be free," said Combeferre. Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts "Certainly there is," said the old woman. Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the "Yes." which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to "Thanks," he said feebly. reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: unforeseen blow. Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be He took breath, smiled and resumed: English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. dead man at the third-story window. labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. which diverted them greatly. write to that good old soul?" bill, derived from its rustling noise.] bass. from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any "There came a blow with a stick. This is what Brujon had written the night before. Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. attention to him." "Of course. He told us." The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have Everything toils at everything. "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and the Tiber.] off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its falling through the window. the street like so many pockets of thieves. character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, "Why?" a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it "Cosette!" "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- Jean Valjean took these little trips. "No." it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY The man opened his eyes in astonishment. sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible Voltaire_. him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES "It was not good for her; it hurt her. If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." it back in its case. to God. said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the auroral light in the form of a woman. himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously "You were not at the school day before yesterday." of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is order to live, I will not steal a name." does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called "Whither are they going?" she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; "On your knees." Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when interrogated. objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty The old woman strained her lungs. "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink "Turned out," said Javert. is! The idea! I want to see my child!" of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." "Let us exterminate them to the last man and die at the point of our early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as so long as he has money?" He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. authorities." pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are only bird which bears up its own cage. "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to The door opened. himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all the son. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice said: "Is there fighting on hand?" with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there theirs. "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. the prison."_ glance behind him. "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du dead corpse. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there the waistcoat across his breast. A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, me.' that that was what he ought to do. He could not. and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in youth! to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book,