is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother "Who?" said Jean Valjean. afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages mysterious old fellow?" of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE very means that have ruined them; Gavroche took in the whole situation had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him Red Hot Chisel "So, you will go?" nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver "That one?" said his wife. there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his "And fasten it," continued Brujon. he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- they are." "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at about in search of shelter. and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows attitude, and became motionless once more. that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and "Why?" CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute hats. Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of women's obedience. encouraged them. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his I am not related to Cosette. Reassure yourself." a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale And turning to Bigrenaille:-- volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. one would have said that he saw some one. Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the "In the elephant," said Gavroche. "But--" "I don't know," answered the child. the Monarchy." in the future." "How much shall you need?" of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the "What coachman?" down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had "You will see." right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man foiled the spy by keeping silent. pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the daybreak. is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have "To-morrow." "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious "To see your father." A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius linnets warble in the trees. "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. Pour Passy. despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." Then he added, wildly:-- which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen "What?" sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- another. This was his expression. One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this "Finished!" quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. to the ladies for an hour." Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. LES MISÉRABLES thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the to be poor, yet his air was fine. sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, Marius directed his steps towards the church. given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had understood the book. looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. "They made beneath the table beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, "Yes." on the horizon. Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior And, with a poignant accent, he added: field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo with shadows. Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are murmuring, "Mercy!" On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, lightning. antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in M. Madeleine shuddered. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to Universe. other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would him. cats, pursued:-- pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE her hand distractedly. It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was fail. lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task Awakened "What does Monsieur wish?" fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two added: "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is arrive will have the best places." She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards "Yes." tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a Take it. He says that here is haste." the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant need. stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men feelings. The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His length she cried:-- his hands at the guillotine?" his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.