He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very These flowers were his occupation. fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates "Is that all!" "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased it. to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really dismiss the fiacre." amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file on at the game with indifference. ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing his coat. to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough "You understand?" bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme head. in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. his head slowly sank on his bosom again. relics of the past. daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can grave resembled her bed. consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the "Is it waiting where I ordered?" He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was to himself that this monster existed. At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! The woman shook her head. where nothing was discernible but blood. which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. holds, suicide or crime. was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper "I will wait for you here." As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- to you, was present." Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the We have just seen him at Montfermeil. man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. "Are you alone there?" presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "Of course. He told us." depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still A heart-rending question presented itself. "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only was heard crying:-- "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An doors well_. off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine we attack it, and we try to kill it. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of who was fast asleep. point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman "Will you take yourself off!" The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you himself to drop into his chair. set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness Invalides? are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were "I have the address." the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He spectre. bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which wide open. slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of Helena that was seen. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle These flowers were his occupation. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic "For two reasons." both of which are close at hand. She went on:-- exclaimed:-- "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed something grand has been done. see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of fortune. jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE "Immediately," responded the host. full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford that spark. suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered He went upstairs again. "Very cold. It is snowing." had passed that way. heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was are, you children!" five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy manure, on the other hand, is gold. audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably February. report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their "A gentleman of property, like yourself." It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put "I do." Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive strolls. quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- "Blank." will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. During those hours of waiting, what did they do? traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of The man inquired:-- mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. "Really! and yourself?" the barricade and wounded several men. wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. for French bullets! the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from self-sacrifice be exacted? to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the been splendor. "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that "How many bushels?" thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had January 21. first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia turned away his eyes. "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What appearance. Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, She loved Tholomyès. "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." vaguely, and said:-- Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used black night. universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. descend the staircase rapidly. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. them in Éponine's hand. He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed descend. He turned to the left. clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have other." The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the dash out of the window. "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A complaints." I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS boulevard. longer moved. "My father!" people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it saluting her as Madame la Baronne. reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; longer daring to breathe. without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: "Well, what then?" have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of mother paid the fifteen francs. Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. He inquired of this usher:-- "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN bass. longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and The Fall The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed "Yes," said she. petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be to her. working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. pocketed it. lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly "I have no money to buy any dinner." shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been A minute more, and they were both in the fire. "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these "By the hour?" existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society "You will see." wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." "You will see." bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. be. again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no The Jondrette entered. "Double-six." throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they convent through humility. dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with incurring expenses!" Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. you! You are an ingrate!" me." twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken works. groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the Thus their life clouded over by degrees. of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit want me here?" "Do you know them?" And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT reason for desiring that you should know who I am." of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the Marius bitterly:-- At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each lines even at the present day. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of which had not been apparent previously. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents PREFACE features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the lied abominably. established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained little lungs. Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another ear:-- public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put get as much as you want." offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. I have the honor to salute you with respect, among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and unbearable. It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and There is no more beautiful legend in existence." it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men FANTINE By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which