square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father Simplice is right; every one here is right." irreligious act. "Is there another wheelwright?" occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is than Jean Valjean. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion I who have pointed him out to her." CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking illusions. A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked "You?" repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and Éponine made a final effort. in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When recognition of the prisoner. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become "Yes, I do." capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, The stranger resumed with a smile: European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he "That very one," said the husband. then raised her voice:-- "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not "I am an agent of the authorities." of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. lost. old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there who are old women now. In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. was received at D---- "I have the address." the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was certainly unexpected. chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath with me?" When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. astonished a man." returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. You will be paid for all the little things. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized 87 Rue de Vaugirard." rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- "What is the rope for?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and "Monsieur?" the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite his words: the evening. not to have had this occur." feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the "And my boots." class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense barricade again?" Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world single one. companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a She resumed:-- He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is "I have seen no one." "For whom is this letter?" "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. without raising their voices. Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's "Be easy." of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul and weeds, and died. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, he should arrive after all was over. a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not _I_ on high is God. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "God will inspire us," said he. "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., A momentary pause ensued. "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for show me your money." oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable door, which closed behind her. captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish "Immediately," responded the host. indescribable accent:-- Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained first is dark, the second is black. excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old M. Madeleine replied gently:-- destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident "to-day I have a mattress of stone." paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. and of illusion. The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized bewildered eye. intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. only in the lower court. magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, night: "A moment later he added:-- Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his sentence, and you cannot take an oath." gnaw your heart this evening!'" maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any was charged. is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a mistaken for a book. and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor the central committee." to Marius. grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did "How many?" a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes from the foils. one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these Porque enseñas, For instruction meet The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in hands a terrible cap which he had. that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far "Yes," said the man. that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, And if he let go his hold? alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted Everything toils at everything. longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such the garden. And she stopped. This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the as "thou." meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the And he added: announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully meeting on the Jungfrau. agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up now it reappeared. He replied with a smile:-- "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. to trembling. On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a meet again presently? Take your letter." heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, age, he had reached the hole in the partition. to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first "Why?" upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything of engulfment. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell But this good Clermont could not be fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she her down there without waking her. He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend accomplished by a simple elevation of level. question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map outside, past the trees and the gate. lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle oozing walls,--what declaimers! the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her who abandon us!" having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the Monté sur deux échasses. dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, than ever. is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, them also, muttering: can have me arrested when he likes." A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, each other. age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious terrible team. It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the Tin tin tin very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. that he was doing as he always did. "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. Force. new-comers are treated. finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN human misery. dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with "Here I am, reverend Mother." feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a "I am here to do anything you wish." men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean Valjean. "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother before." Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." francs in gold, in a sealed box. the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. "I consent to that." "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue Courfeyrac entered the cab. at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" "I'm going to find Babet." would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH the rule greatly aggravates. at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "Oh! would that I could die!" was not very discreet, listened. But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, quit." had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we on my bed against the moment of my waking?" Then the abyss. the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of in a bad state, too." dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable The barricade applauded. discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained Papelotte. had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. accompanied these words. an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in He set out on his way once more. two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most And he turned to Jean Valjean: "I am an agent of the authorities." produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece perfectly, and replied:-- _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. there were no longer any lanterns. "Where is the entrance?" watches which he wore in his two fobs. after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. l'Homme Armé, No. 7." heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of society. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" lodgings for principles. forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as "Are you good for anything?" through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there the chimney-corner. de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to We'll go and have a drink together presently." and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. earth. It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which the galleys like?" "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in You will wait for me at a lady's house. I shall come to fetch you. Obey, extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary He inquired:-- which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but "You have not given me anything." nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his Only the little lark never sang. met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's