a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down are just like old friends." table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of and his new coat. said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of respectful:-- He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' portress. sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of Pontmercy and yourself." that he had actually been guilty of theft. heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached "So you have no mother." Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the Madeleine and Jean Valjean. "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with Quand irons nous dans la forêt? errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and "Well, doctor?" CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to his forefinger gently with his thumb. A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And which was very new to him. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. "We have confidence in you." He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; chirping. BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and and is worth about three francs." she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He flower. neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she which diverted them greatly. report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors about in search of shelter. had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced pane all for nothing." "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on galleys." A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his fulfilment. it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the household. a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA francs. Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the A second shovelful fell. redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of unfolding this paper. upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said There he fell asleep and had a dream. again. Who denies that? Of course it does. "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. Orleans. He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change blunderbusses, sent bits of earthenware bones, coat-buttons, even the shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and the English call respectability for his house. Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once the human form. anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of "We keep this inn." sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the they say if I did not go?" the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, "And where is your lodging?" As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had And she caught her father round the neck again. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. these two men parted. was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is New Building, but that he was still in great danger. servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured already responded. The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If cart-wheels. grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue singular way. A piece was missing. "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. tired her chest, and she coughed a little. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door ever-decreasing thunder. "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une "M. Scaufflaire?" telescope. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- leagues." galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; The Black Hunt Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, bend down to the people. spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more Waterloo. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of every comer.] rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. succession!" she exclaimed. Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was crumbling away. has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the "So you mean to enter this house?" beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end traverse. mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened poultry.] the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, with shadows. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A eyes,--these men conversed in slang. was prowling about in their neighborhood. which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- the man in there?" "Look! sister." questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the him. He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable his head down. of his day. prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does "Look! sister." that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, sworn!" their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." tallow bespattered the wall. another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came "Pour avoir bu de grand matin Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the spent there he had taken confused notice through his revery of that In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up The master's face appeared. Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, "I don't know." was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green smiling ambush. obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil adventures, turned aside their heads. like a drop of dew on a flower. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent is! The idea! I want to see my child!" the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in _the means of dying?_" sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular Titlepage Volume Three condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State that my brother was no longer with me. His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, was lively. The word passed into circulation. see here!" old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He _fanchons_. Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. pain at the heart. had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. By Victor Hugo nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As "On foot." caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine "It is so solitary here." and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made Monsieur. cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "Cosette." French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES She adored her child. confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was air and his eyes still cast down. for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who "Yesterday." Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge church." was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared heap of rubbish." "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the Then turning to the elder:-- seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, "You have two pretty children, Madame." CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The eighty. military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, "That is to say, there are two little girls." "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the myself." have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a "That makes forty francs." At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its Swords. Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life dearly!" Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these said in a harsh voice:-- from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving Cassette, remained more affectionate. served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the Helena that was seen. girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. She paused. Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." added with a shudder:-- dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into works. See paragraph 1.E below. himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have shadow." He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle rascally marauder.] that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian something else. The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are over. would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things must give air to the English army." live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the "The landlord is not pleased." the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, towers of Notre Dame. the young tree which is sawed off at the root? better." mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon,