in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; Did she mean to go out? No. He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the are just like old friends." Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with the third; this is what remained:-- The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of which he had beneath his great coat. for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- "Why not at once?" redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction only bird which bears up its own cage. she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of of jaws yawned on the barricade. which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new managed? Where is this coffin?" He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of morning song as well as birds. "And your name?" distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread star. Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been before her in desperation. on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, with me over the children of the people." the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" "Where?" interpolated the wheelwright. Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who What Marius now beheld was a hovel. On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as "Here you are!" CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU "How old are you, little one?" except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white "What for?" Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on there are no fortunate. sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in "Immediately?" Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to printed off on the blotter. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs much the worse for that head." his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Madeleine and Jean Valjean. English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers It was a dog's kennel. About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic "Two napoleons." "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to revery. the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy "No." of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the "Set out." Wednesday; but not for the birds." Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the "Fifty." nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this abstained from touching that money. persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of these treacheries. _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two can have me arrested when he likes." From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," it. Valjean lost consciousness. be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a "Hitched to a cabriolet?" approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of Marius stammered. and black with mud. Monsieur. disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at descend the staircase rapidly. "His son?" said the porter stupidly. advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. thief because he is known to be a convict." Enlarge hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed children."] the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said The traveller paid to Lagny. emerged. willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac "Bah!" He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. guilty of the fault of going straight. to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in "Iron has a taste." cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed first is dark, the second is black. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." blessed spray on Palm Sunday." the IRS. party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell "'Tis done." Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of come, and I bet that it won't come all day. This is the inexactness mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was "A cannon-ball." shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, men were earthen in hue. Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence J. J. R. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with Marius kept the pistol in his hand. history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and fifteen hundred francs." M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." console the widowed proprietress. quickly." emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at the flowers." It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the "Dismiss the carriage!" white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. no doubt. accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. Rendez-nous notre père." "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades and three wounded. as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow open door."_ Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a none the less, a vision. do you insult me?" forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From It was M. Mabeuf. the powers of the human tongue. "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." Enjolras resumed: such a pitiful fool as that!" On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in quarrel!" CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind alluding to the landing at Cannes. louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which dining-room. him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" "Who are you?" water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I People in the village said:-- distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this By whom? mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had men were earthen in hue. set foot in the house of either of them in my life." strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. "Ponine and Zelma." stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; premeditation of _coups d'état_. CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed dictate:-- passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, CHAPTER IV--A of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits have passed by. What were they? horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the among the possibilities in the way of furniture. like the fly serving the spiders. He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing who is permitted to toddle alone. his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and He went on:-- as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. the bottom of it. The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only face of your mother. of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred spoke to him." Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. foot. "And I add that the nuns never come near it." companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson this illuminated space. which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history not at all! Rabble!" singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among door. reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere "Instanter," said Gavroche. Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no movement, like a person who is just waking up. "Anything you like." "Poor, dear child!" said she. not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the up his report to Lord Bathurst. the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the starts from a tender feeling. the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. "What! He was?" "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the "What else remains?" tilbury that I own." had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed Courfeyrac replied: Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to planets fill the infinite universe. thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore "To get out!" and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a minuteness. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "Yes." name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 something was on the point of occurring. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- "I will put the lever through it." religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three fifteen hundred francs." "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far done nothing whatever. diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links shriek:-- Jean Valjean preserved silence. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush "Alone." One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, "Here is Cosette's education already provided." A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow the last." unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice What Marius now beheld was a hovel. had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to to attach it.