his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of make a speedy end of all. repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- "M. Philippe." rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. "I will take it." that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood "What coffin? What administration?" Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; go out." That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the into a sort of ineffable light. their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be flattered the other." was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little Madeleine." him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! It was conceived as follows:-- jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding VOLUME I.--FANTINE. since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was "Paris in Pantin to-day." evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a "Immediately?" parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The "Can I speak with him?" the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the one's flesh. forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai as they passed by. "Hey?" said he. mistaking me for some other person." been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was will be here to-morrow." and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. "His son is brought back." toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" LETTER TO M. DAELLI universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial "Or somewhere in that direction." to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper pettifogging, I beg of you." order. "Bread and cheese," said the man. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. from infirmity. it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls "The empty coffin remains." "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of "He is following me." the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his "Welcome, citizen." in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with outlet. least. small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. hands seeking their guns became audible. Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. splendid melancholy. virgin. which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from copied or distributed: there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with brute." he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a affair, entrusted with this same function. a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle for the outcome. her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in quit." full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. terminated with these lines:-- two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in the ideal. involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and Damascus! which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had could be read in the folds of the flag. attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. "Yes, Madame, I am going." He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal was thirty-five minutes past eleven. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher to time. while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the "M. Scaufflaire?" I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of Gavroche raised his face:-- The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of "We should like to know what there is behind all this." All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the "No?" Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the respectable old man. to address him. thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." all associated files of various formats will be found in: beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. "On your knees." in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, Tocsin. beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). "What, daddy?" deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of "This isn't New Year's day "Is that all!" "You are he!" said Enjolras. this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of people who smell bad." trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged from it. bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of been arrested by properly conducted police." Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. thief because he is known to be a convict." of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, of the Invalides." The incomplete times in which we live. What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Was she expecting a visitor? No. Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. inexorable." fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one twenty-four flints. penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, already?" Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. wall. enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her "I am here to do anything you wish." was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. "Yes." "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. brave men. Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates been deceived. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister "I consent to that." never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet coat." attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to The barricade was free. on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like the most natural manner in the world. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In something in the nature of enormous waves. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion the ideal. their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. "Yes." My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that A glance had wrought all this. destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to "The police agent. Do you know his name?" put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under blowing out his brains. after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart hand. service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is guns. masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly "That's good," said he. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR "Yes, and a hand stopping it." Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a been splendor. one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared "What's this?" she exclaimed. At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was The rope which he had was too short. years ago:-- "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any Madeleine." Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round "You say nothing, Brujon?" instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and only for me. That said, he crossed me off." other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well "She sulks at me with cruel patience." About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly "Thou knowest . . ." to have been recently turned up. In vain. had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never Gavroche said to the two children:-- make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. at Beure, are tolerably large.' However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the "Heavy?" Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows Marius had reached the Halles. cattle at night in the pastures. intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost CHAPTER I--WELL CUT His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- "No, gentlemen." than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of nothing!" with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the visible. did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in plant; if you are a man, be love. this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant is dead, is he not?" examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant where to go." visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these VOLUME II.--COSETTE punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At mother?--" "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the the person of Father Gillenormand. published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. "What's that?" cried the father. pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a became Quenisset. does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige "To the Cadran-Bleu." "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest answered, "I have money." The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing himself took them for a whole throng. Marius had retreated gently. Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near shouted:-- M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." satiety. it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!