the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called breath of the cholera. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon from the night. unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the He replied:-- distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, des Prêcheurs. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, VOLUME I.--FANTINE. soldier, out of the question. horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to does not prevent rags on man. having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing He halted, and said gently:-- your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. repeated it. Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, "At my house," replied the old woman. has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a Montparnasse winked. where nothing was discernible but blood. nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find cobbler!" ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, Montfermeil?" That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her all associated files of various formats will be found in: the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of abysses. his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP He paused and said gently: Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to "I cannot." Valjean. explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the The senator resumed:-- the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: And turning to Jean Valjean:-- each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal Let us fight. Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at faith. Fauchelevent fell on his knees. swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. disastrous." He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the of lion-lamb who had been his father. and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal They were bottles of aquafortis. converted into a lawyer. newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no irreligious act. in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a "News!" infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; "What are you doing?" Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched Titlepage Volume Five bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, "If I set ten men to work." of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in "Ah!" uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so "See here now! Art thou coming?" couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices He felt that he had been stopped short. house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised prisoner. worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. The shot sped the report burst forth. august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened bulky parcel on the table. see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who to the right, and the other to the left. darkness and waiting for him. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN solidity. done, he closed her eyes. the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his _cadets_ and _fauchants_. _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called visions mingle with his dreams. "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the days." The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the Valjean alighted. Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he "See! there is just room." Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- "Are you alone?" "Give it to me," said the inspector. "Yes." your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it pistol in hand. spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the Let us finish with this man at once. garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the "Nor to any one?" said Marius. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is "How so?" The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; writhed. He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more Filles-du-Calvaire. make Cosette keep silent. is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves enormous size. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- a warning." which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of still more so for the English than for the French. once more at the Luxembourg. and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its is fighting going on?" the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a mother paid the fifteen francs. hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon A voice replied:-- language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the She murmured:-- cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded Montparnasse answered:-- _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et He sprang out of the tilbury. he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed anything away any more. They eat everything." on. "I do." still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned details. He went on:-- June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la To what purpose?" understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, A heart-rending question presented itself. energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant Mirliton ribonribette evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and other Fauvent_. him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. It was Gribier's voice. being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and nothing." stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. warrior picks up his buckler. "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession. to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, Let us, then, go back a few years. be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough "For whom is this letter?" It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's And she had replied: "This." creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great the market-place. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing "Certainly." Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped "Speak." time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of peremptory fashion. "No." It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that his blue ribbon!" to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face regulated their employment accordingly. "Then--" Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in with his nature. every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all Sometimes even several of them at a time. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act of the dawn. memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own Which of the two will be the first to fall? crisis was approaching. those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round Bruneseau. Barrière du Maine." she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, virgin. A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," themselves under shelter." sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of The waiter replied:-- could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one brims, which were called _bolivars_. He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the child." each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze She paused, not daring to proceed further. deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, something grand has been done. Break a pane of glass!" singular way. A piece was missing. This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a children. which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; "Monsieur Pontmercy." by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. One last word. the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. "Monsieur!--" said Marius. Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES their son. there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done you go out. You have paid, now clear out." CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource "Anarchy is entering this garden." extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel "That is possible." Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests rusty hinge had not awakened any one. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; has take refuge in France, pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful wear socks were barefooted. populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was stand in need of us?" He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean a black hole. from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE says Molière. instead of _thou_ for the next three months. prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor million for the town and its poor. just fallen asleep. and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and Then he rose, and turned to Javert. as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." Enlarge The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands this quest. tilbury that I own." ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels.