them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day remember! You don't see who I am?" has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the CHAPTER II--ROOTS of life been established between this celestial little creature and that Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most him. it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he "At the Court of Assizes." day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his that your mind may be set at rest." "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is "It must be so; I am a knight, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a Those long canals choked up with soot." shot made its way in. Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. pavement. In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] accents:-- process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed "Good day, Gueulemer!" them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last countries of Europe. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of "By the way!" sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor his savage head. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these and pitiless shame. that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the "trap" of the bride. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, not count for something in his approach to perfection. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." husband. dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, La gloire et la guerre, The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to Javert turned his back. alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle "I am paying attention." "Ram that into your muzzle." But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's "I will make that my special business." The Bishop clapped his hands. humble soul loved, and that was all. reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' than he should guard himself. the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the coldly:-- Javert went on:-- A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One "Not particularly." "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms "We haven't the time." Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the This only caused an increase of his stupor. It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! "And great haste is required." the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was "Because the hall is full." On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who said that amazement has its lightning flashes. At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He have more good things to eat in your basket." a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how was received at D---- true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains "I really beg you a thousand pardons." the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing The Jondrette entered. As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now "Still no?" a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with to dwell?" does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to it was I." was crouching over Marius. There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black recall where he had dined that evening. fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE The conflict on the plateau continued. upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the "If I set ten men to work." not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; together," and a tin box full of cartridges. Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating resemble shaved heads. a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even the man in there?" seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt linnets warble in the trees. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the pole surmounted by a red cap. "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least have passed by. What were they? grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social "Put your back against the wall." "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. me.' "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was Courfeyrac replied: griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, thief because he is known to be a convict." horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, know, and that I'm positive." "You shall have the address." deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that deliriums of fever. "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough "I got them," replied Fantine. fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." "Is Monsieur complaining?" should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with Then he added:-- Courfeyrac said to him:-- Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask And he led his little bourgeois away. implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was And he added:-- eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut "Yes, the rats." ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the inherited his pickaxe. matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in Martin Verga. tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In on her pillow. "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most Basque announced: In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint delicate operation is called "spinning." "No, sir; it is Christmas." making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which "And you?" visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the "It is so." The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a and gave them to the priest. sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from evidently." sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both "Nineteen years." awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. commanded the assailants. examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at "He is absent. I am here in his stead." a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden "Well?" as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, For the second time, he stopped short. him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these as his trousers. promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "Say on." foot. Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in feelings. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in bend down to the people. and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to prepare the shipwreck. de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as hats. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR establishment. consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. the street like so many pockets of thieves. it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the the truth about Louis Philippe. one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis of a tragic adventure. abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, derivative of the night. so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control sobriquet!" Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish throw one's self in the water. him the last door in the corridor, on the right." The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of hovel!" her seat at his left. prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that on high. a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." she asked him:-- little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the spectres. cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal having seen it somewhere. "Hush! Thou knowest it!" Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving populace wages battle against, the people. himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to