And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking sobriquet!" anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats "I tell you that he's the father." Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, "No more than before." Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean "And have you come from far like this?" "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. "There are lone women," said Guelemer. the environs of Paris. did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape The rope ladder was still shaking. Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with on. roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our "This is too much! How is this?" opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a him. "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the it. Bougon. elsewhere said, "looks before her." Nature divides living beings into when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second musician, but I want the clarionet." abysses as well as evil ones. something else. "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. was. an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they not understand, which made the goodman furious. had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't end of the room. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural Jean Valjean stammered: little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at idea, then a hope. There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the except her pallor. mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." "I'm going to put these infants to bed." Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called made. in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. "What do you want?" there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were "Two axes and a pole-axe." abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. contained all the violence of voluptuousness. word. Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? M. Gillenormand went on: Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows francs and ninety-five centibes." thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song view, why do we speak of civil war? CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. "You understand?" breath. After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and "Give it to me," said the inspector. "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle And Cosette began again: Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly "And the bridegroom?" Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. Valjean. One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses say." infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in "Four points." These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint "Very good," said Montparnasse. wall, for fear of alarming her. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. And that the deed of Javert! uttering the word _country_. "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." 59 (return) [ Mustards.] then raised her voice:-- room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to charcoal ready." be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the has entered here. Who are you, sir?" and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and in which she was still pretty. was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this two teeth were lacking. of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what Thus their life clouded over by degrees. before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" bath. whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said who was fast asleep. of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a "It embarrasses me," said she. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket was lively. The word passed into circulation. inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "Are you going far?" eyes,--these men conversed in slang. Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in Marius left the house. vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze the other side of the quagmire. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he The Bishop replied:-- wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant would not quit your family to go and see a creature." celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is Was this to be endured? No. with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in would be broken in five minutes more. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY "Yes!" stammered Marius. had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" The Resurrection longer moved. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "This is my place, sir." Marius made a movement. "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three "I know." dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; Frontispiece Volume One of the burning lint-stock. sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the prison adds to wretchedness. conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the affair_. the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with irreligious act. soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is unbearable. tone: to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" back. The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences "It bores me." breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has thing which is full of splendor. her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest Javert continued: "The gentleman!" It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have "Gardener." will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, first step in a staircase leading back to life. main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not Éponine turned to the five ruffians. He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had "No, gentlemen." "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. of bread in a cup of milk. On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of lie!" in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated she was trembling. the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose twenty-four flints. a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the Lolotte! Shiver, covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that their hands. "What, reverend Mother?" The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his 'Tis the fault of . . . " used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "Well?" "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" sooner than he had thought for. radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid bewildered eye. of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point LES MISÉRABLES two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when "It is the riots." eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, "Are you afraid?" wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart and three wounded. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what She thought no more about it. "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals Favourite paused, and then went on:-- dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances which had not been apparent previously. "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, "Rue Mouffetard." When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict They know not what it means!" But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks fire in less than a quarter of an hour. on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment said to her, "Follow me!" protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between a curve on the ground.] "You are right," she said to him. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the the wine-shop noticed it. to ask you something." Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient mistaken for a book. In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come "Come along with me, young 'uns!" think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is maid, continued to say: "My people." carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail starts from a tender feeling. "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we wretch. This was odious. grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed Marius. happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, "But how will you manage to breathe?" Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN one. "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the bows, and demanded in a curt tone: the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft of his soul. of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration overturned his basket. fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Enlarge shall meet again soon." wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. and was spying on his proceedings. from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever Have you them?" things. his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." M. Madeleine replied gently:-- "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." happened? all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one