longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket like the scales on the hydra. races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this it means prosper." Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among himself with Boulatruelle. any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the This very small change had effected a revolution. pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. many guns are there?" resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough He recoiled and stammered:-- in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" saint suited this soul. and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of "Yesterday." All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a of bread in a cup of milk. were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities "No." Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; her teeth:-- conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be except her pallor. give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down what made me run so." not to have had this occur." The man gave a start and raised his eyes. "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. hereabouts!" the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. presence. had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. and set the candlesticks on the table. "Javert." Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That hand had relaxed and had let him go free. recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. HIS ARM "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. "But, Mr. Mayor--" own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as All at once, he stopped short. tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which from the point of view of flowers. soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. "And you are to be turned out of this one." Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- little way of saying "Yes, sir." more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble Why? "And who ate the cat?" prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked in the perspective of his revery. de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer the number. proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed past a delightful garret. "No splashing of the wounded," he said. ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not "Yes, Courfeyrac." "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, "I thank you," said the Bishop. Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a VOLUME I.--FANTINE. in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. plant; if you are a man, be love. aperture. silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. This man was _the_ man. The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. he, the intruder, who interrogated. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child "You do not recognize me?" awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of angry with him for this avowal. performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises All at once, he stopped short. guards and one battalion from Brunswick. The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and infirmary and see Fantine. he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index was attributed to the coachman. He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. him the last door in the corridor, on the right." to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." Still, he felt that he had lost time. dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his and the child. The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of "What coachman?" In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate like a drop of dew on a flower. sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn "And Cosette?" of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which "I was praying to the martyr there on high." having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. wood." one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor Cosette did not understand a word. For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to wait until they are in the street before replying." charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette with his accustomed placidity:-- This elicited an exclamation from the workers. There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the grant me shelter for this night." charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is leur dire un mot. increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. PHENOMENON As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon tell himself. Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in "How much?" he demanded. CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, an appeal, was ringing in the distance. "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the suffer." Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their always turn on their peg. "But who the deuce is he following?" Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand to his cave.] CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where "Open!" said Cabuc. Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered She shook her head and added:-- A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. millionaire of stars. the grave. left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a "Do you belong in this street?" man. has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. the temperament of heroes and martyrs. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an qu'il ravissait quiconque!"