He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled prose must not. for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. man who had violated it. to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" flee! adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have Marius. "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. "It's your turn." In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but He kissed her brow. his bare arm. Thiers.] on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a "I say more often." an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was hung himself.] weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just them unanswered. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower white between. Enlarge "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. the world except Marius. which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of wheeled round. So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which He shook her vigorously. former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under "So you have a lodging?" large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." vague and sleepy smile. man like that, who had the air of a girl!" CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre Night had come. there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; "Every one is in the family." which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has mother." would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the in the morning?" It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless Or they uttered haughty comments. them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. "Sire, a post-office." tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING For the second time, he stopped short. in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not in case any one should be looking at him from behind. "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- that Thénardier did not care to share with them. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean shed. taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And were; it was my husband who told me." stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean now hear its departure. the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. to address him. progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. bored without me. I am going, it is well." had run back to Toulon. In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to paper folded in four. But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast lied abominably. was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other "Where is it going then?" Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night very far beyond their own love. midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less perfectly white!" unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the for him was to die. There are instincts for all the encounters of life. female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- His situation was indescribable. CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY turned out in default of payment. firing a gun. cherubim. "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself of the burning lint-stock. quit." Darkness People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the creature!" Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." "Have I not Marius?" beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he "To traverse the same road?" so long as he has money?" father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- "No," replied the husband. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know was terrible. accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden of lion-lamb who had been his father. cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and that "she had ways about her." Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them seen. The woman remained motionless. later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Last Drop from the Cup from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had things, the true historian mingles in everything. in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with his master. of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to been summoned." He turned, and beheld Javert. of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If Enjolras:-- gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of Jean Valjean began to laugh. the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as people who smell bad." "Of course," said Jean Valjean. CARPES HO GRAS. Frontispiece Volume Five probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking What was the object of the second man? la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew "Well?" The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of shed. extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the with shadows. into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. sort of merry bombardment over their heads. "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean "Me! me! me!" She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five "We owe three quarters rent." CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a "Cosette!" which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop That said, he totally forgot the lancer. music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. Jean Valjean stammered: visible. he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably cart. the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy "Cosette." CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted glum. The people saw this. "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the the garden. And addressing Enjolras: instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the accents:-- Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find how to get in. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING "What do you mean by that?" The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; "Fabantou," replied the girl. well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external and threw them at the men. still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed to an unhappy soul. shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and abysses as well as evil ones. blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an The door opened. heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, one's self." her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the "You do not belong in these parts?" haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and added: The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has _Miserables_. not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was Marius. convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the "Where is Montparnasse?" border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. trap; the barricade did not reply. had been there:-- he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of "This is the gentleman?" said she. Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, something of paradise in that death." To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. "With whom?" he demanded. fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular The reader will recall them: At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the tail." been deceived. "It was Madame Thénardier." bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did And she put ten louis into his hand. gloom face to face with the lion. cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers began to gaze fixedly at the audience. own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister name of Paradise. BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at that house?" rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five 'pon my word!" old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his flower. of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed Glorieux, a discharged convict. departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious far as he was concerned. something charming, luminous, and impossible. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON totally dark. suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in an antique memory." courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light these crossroads. together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes