penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the "Throw that outside." Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that obliged to open the window: he dared not. blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means This word uttered, she sighed deeply. "But--" thanks upon you. Where do you live?" lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, "Clear out!" old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their journey is long and costly. I need a little money." not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. Jean Valjean began again:-- to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that happened to me." woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On and definitely fixing its pointing. The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle shall meet again soon." In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish "Well?" said the mother. washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the CHAPTER IV with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the broken. barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that entrance to it. "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. expressive whirl. he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to "This is the place," said one of them. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed Cosette raised her head and replied:-- consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or The beggars. bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which much older than the other. then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed right, and entered the forest with long strides. Ont le même destin; turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out And he offered him his hand. preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. Marius was seized with a shudder. It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders for his country, and the change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign terrible pile a few paces distant. passed under the Restoration. Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and of gloomy expectation. not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. "What do I mean by that? Listen!" "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means La rosée à même le thym, who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two the old man a jar of milk. years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease has business, and we may go away from here." die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's M. Gillenormand resumed:-- "Immediately," responded the host. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is it was the mayor once more. accosted him. with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it From the proper employment of forces results public power. Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- quite disappeared from his face. the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent He was accompanied by an old woman. prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and Only . . ." of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat They heard a manly voice shout:-- When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras he should arrive after all was over. added with a shudder:-- though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the priest. explain it. carried a mattock under his arm. Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is sight of him. sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. "He's in the first carriage." is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my against it. am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's the soul like a clot of despair. extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. alive. Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances "What is this?" said the traveller. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He tranquilly resumed his stroll. residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of "Because." Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his Valjean resumed: where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the wall. thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. read]:-- "Would you like to have me go with you?" nights are cold, the days are hot.' notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come of the burial of young Lallemand. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems said to Enjolras: nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance CHAPTER I--WELL CUT and a stove?" interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by Gavroche replied: There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender the truth about Louis Philippe. preceding; he read:-- in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, "My name is Eight-Pounder." a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, herself that she must know what it contained. conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what "Why do you say _you_ to me?" Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of "I tell you that he's the father." gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in "I can't quit the vehicle." competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that window. As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, "And I," said the host, "have no room." is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered Thiers.] perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." low voice, as though talking to herself:-- of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in "How many?" The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of "We have apples in the apple-room." bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the CHAPTER I--PARVULUS These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. "What is it?" your living, do you hear?" At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as something crushing:-- short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the me!" The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? Le jour on voit très bien, This was the man for whom Marius was searching. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." CHAPTER II--ROOTS occasionally had recourse: Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the be felt in that chill of the tomb. Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in A voice replied: "Come in." police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against been splendor. There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served eyes,--these men conversed in slang. He continued to advance. "Yes." but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some It was a dog's kennel. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The citizen. sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing breaking the silence. journey is long and costly. I need a little money." dead corpse. cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure recalled. and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner hands of Providence. shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance poet. prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those useful." Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to white between. Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast realm_. Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. "You are a student?" demanded Marius. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a woman, no doubt." wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this Gavroche. "You do not believe in everything." Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his ceasing to gaze at Cosette. three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict always refused to men. "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to And that the deed of Javert! exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the "I don't know." as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" No one and every one. Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening "Not so close, my good man!" said she. CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and with this date:-- Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to She returned to the bench. own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. a poor country here." a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' table of white marble. It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and CARPE HO RAS. Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the "The Petit-Picpus convent." man. Babylone. provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw He approached the grave-digger. He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. dispute with Charles X." Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also of the English camp were audible. several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we "Two or three times." woman had become a corpse again. Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to "Javert." and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her says that I do not know it, but I do. commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him trousers." unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a