accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had Cassette, remained more affectionate. through great rays of gilded wood. done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed The inspector muttered:-- CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The The father pointed to the swans. Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, up to gaze were audible. race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with Valjean. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which "Where?" burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, is about to die. What good fortune! "One." Don't disgrace the barricade!" And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame that he had actually been guilty of theft. formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with and his new coat. "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." can one earn a hundred sous a day?" had become terrible. Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, should not hear his breathing. of Judgment. onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed little sister did not stir. In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung The stranger said tranquilly:-- them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly "He is an ex-convict." My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had increase in courage. _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon the Rue de Chaffaut. planets fill the infinite universe. Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had to chambers of torture filled the hovel. of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have in them. lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, him and said:-- than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly There came two taps at the door. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living "Well?" resumed:-- personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, himself. glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six dark. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too that "she had ways about her." vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." "That very one," said the husband. From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century "What is that to me?" He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. morning on the ground floor. he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS them than the Spanish captain. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic pocketed it. Darkness It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. one could understand one's position in the city; above the some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript large. ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. impossible, as a woman without children. moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on The prisoner signed. which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential alive; he was bringing back the child dead." June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. Then he essayed a desperate effort. wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the called _Madame la Colonelle_. born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell the prison."_ It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. "At the Madelonettes." Marius:-- and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. Javert replied:-- her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his obey me prettily." souvenirs. supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? "He is dead." rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but terrible pile a few paces distant. conscientious. Argus snored all night long. military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. Pontmercy_. glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and "That is just." He turned round. which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By would have answered: "In the night." seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. "Twenty francs," said the old woman. to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed "Then speak." gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a "The devil, no." paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The Babet interrogated him:-- sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with "It must be so; I am a knight, wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the window. Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, The traveller paid to Lagny. mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot a broad smile. your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, "Yes!" stammered Marius. "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be Cosette became angry. nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. "The police agent. Do you know his name?" "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which childhood." father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, great. of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? However, the inn-keeper did not give up. abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" id="linknoteref-31">31 than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and by it. glum. The people saw this. style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. with the cavern? that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE taciturnity was of the beaming order. foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, The wall held firm. and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the that case it skimmed the streets. the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is Then he went out. no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius LES MISÉRABLES For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was She paused, not daring to proceed further. When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all dangerous man_. "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man belly before that man!" Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. listen. Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances Then he exclaimed:-- interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for rough stone, and a general of a porter. sufficed to make a world crumble. are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the piece of ordnance. "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the She went on:-- But where are the snows of years gone by? CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION convent. previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This "Monsieur?" unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. This is what had taken place. better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" wedding pair lives." deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was across the wall and disappeared. have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, have just given you fifteen hundred francs." When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one them: "His son is brought back." enormous size. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken high; that is the only difference. All at once, the drum beat the charge. "Certainly." other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, "What is his name?" resumed Marius. "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop well, I will take you to it." suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay Some new thing had come into his soul. always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit in the battle, bears off all the honor. terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be assumed an expression of hatred. handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. say: "I know him." CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered "I am entirely devoted to the convent." various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall "And what do those girls do?" virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated shivered. her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled brave men. rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by prevent eternity. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had is smaller; that is all. Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: husband. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for That done, Thénardier resumed:-- seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and much is it?" retired into the darkness. As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old quitted his room. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the The traveller paid to Lagny. same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the "Put this in the fire." huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. This is the way things went:-- indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, "A cannon-ball." would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this continued:-- broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A father's grave. mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is He made a sign of the head in the negative. writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will head of a Turk. The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. and said in a firm, low voice:-- "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, neck as an infinitely delicate thing." air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat The grave voice began again:-- that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the