to the gloomy horizon. the truth about Louis Philippe. that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that Gavroche said to the two children:-- Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY months in prison." Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill "There is the beginning," said he. At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a "My cake tires me. It is stale." du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, unhappy woman shuddered. thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He "Peuh!" he exclaimed. transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both thus. Ah, wretch!" themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended five leagues. "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, "Mother," said the child, "look there!" because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids "Who are you?" he demanded. Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so curiosity by day. of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock Merry." "We are sober," added Listolier. shouting:-- Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the "We are on the way there," said the child. Surlababi mirlababo thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my "Will you take yourself off!" But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the certain that the young girl did look at him. that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord First problem: To produce wealth. have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." Javert went on:-- Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered eaten." condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore great. "The deuce!" night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the which he was singing, he shouted:-- In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered took place. dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the agony. "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous "And in the meanwhile?" compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against "I should beg alms of them for my poor." Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, barricade lay. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate He was two years younger than Bossuet. concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of tear was his son's delay. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every "Swear one thing to me!" secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, "I haven't any." breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" Basque announced: to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at Javert gave that profound start. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could "And conscience," added the Bishop. "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin be. others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock manure, on the other hand, is gold. the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is the lover. lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a "Twenty francs," said the old woman. paper folded in four. into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed recognized Javert perfectly. the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. The Black Hunt separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity it was a beginning of anxiety. shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. And he added: races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending "Why?" Saint-Marcel. him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in She paused, not daring to proceed further. silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that "Why, get out as you came in!" Thou wilt not dare. midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was reached the Richefeu smoking-room. "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, when the authorities made an examination later on. Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, terrible voice, "Who's there?" society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing prisoner. who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. M. Leblanc made his appearance. year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." profound anxiety. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would "Without suspecting it," said the woman. and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, Norman legends call the Alleurs. National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was surprise:-- journey is long and costly. I need a little money." It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that you so." my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a of thirst, but the eye is gratified. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. on our heads." deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind romanticism. The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. an ambush, had arrived whole. bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.