of the eleven thousand devils." The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it Cosette became angry. the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the "What's that?" cried the father. "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as The certificate of origin was complete. A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's entered the Rue Saint-Louis. idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been "In a hackney carriage." They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the pavement. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was that it issued from an abyss. The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall Favourite shrugged her shoulders. the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there What had become of Jean Valjean? frightened. to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the room. When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had wretched that I will part with it." "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. the name of Azelma. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: Something was required in the foreground. Love came. about in search of shelter. the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. Javert. of dying. Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that the windows of her dormitory. of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer man who had violated it. "In my house? no," said he. mine. My name is Pontmercy." he survived after he was shot. the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the And he added: is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full best road. held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine "You are the brother?" revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops were written:-- He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. hovel!" The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The "What is that?" demanded Favourite. the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to off his hand with an axe. Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The there were no longer any lanterns. He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached idea:-- is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius when her face was in repose. misfortune!" "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if morning." leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched voice:-- and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and "We'll fix him." "No more than before." to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to romanticism. a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees The investigation had begun. for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "We were disputing about philosophy." things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed Then he asked himself-- reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on either one of them where neither exists.] Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted "Yes." In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. "The address that you asked me to get!" This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour No one stirred. for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of themselves, he said, "It is a pity." king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and and that disgusts me with life." Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to did you bring so many; they were not needed." She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the and cocked it. had recurred to him. have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook movement, like a person who is just waking up. CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some the Tiber.] dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, them. He resumed with solemnity:-- CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang mingled with some hesitation. quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of brute." CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." inexorable." the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? depths of the thickets. behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which Filles-du-Calvaire. As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been Bookcover apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was one in the town had heard hitherto:-- it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their "Yes, sir." neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier "Yes." inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty Animaux_. with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ "Give me your hand," said the doctor. "Listen." or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased of having an attitude. age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " "But--" at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He And Grantaire began again:-- stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." arrival, in terrified somnolence. they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done formations are indestructible. those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his look at me?" their hands. Refoncez dans vos culottes "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good atom. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister was obliged to fight to-day. moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated grumbled: her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed And he added: with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound girls trembled and dropped their eyes. "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. discover stars. all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. morning." As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, id="linknoteref-44">44 Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she had not cut the bonds of his left leg. a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE was overwhelmed. permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had "Oh, yes, father." "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused Marius smiled sadly. benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the worth?" saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- matter. He replied:-- "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of felt the painful and burning spot any longer. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS could not be distinguished. military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. "In your place, I would let her alone." "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." LAST KING disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to dead corpse. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" white bread. outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a "Of that young lady." mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" giant. portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of table of white marble. "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. "Why not at once?" the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." heap of rubbish." Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. was wiping out Agincourt. This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired take charge of the Cougourde myself." bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean by a good horse?" is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" other." augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed perfectly white!" "The English," answered the prowler. whose place Fauchelevent had taken. caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an Enjolras resumed: "A cannon-ball." to don his uniform. through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, "State the case precisely." never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She Don't disgrace the barricade!" is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even began. It was here that Jean Valjean stood. like the fly serving the spiders. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, To her only. She shuddered. The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in mouth.] whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride Who were these Thénardiers? rather than to gain further light. "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve