coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to "Look out!" Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts person who killed Javert was Javert." uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in does not prevent them from being of use. world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to "Here is Cosette's education already provided." haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What it melts and leaves the branch quite black. horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." "Wife!" he cried. has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. Cosette made no reply. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of PREFACE you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He of rock. only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and air of two boys. was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed not the same thing as dividing it. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf father. Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to brute." was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and tears, they distinguished words like the following: war." opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of person who killed Javert was Javert." his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he cellar." men!" But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" "That is the concern of the good God." suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on utterance to a dull roar. poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an going on; they hardly heeded this detail. garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been was flesh above and marble below. the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and "Of these men?" Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that "Yes." Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall at the moment. perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a M. Gillenormand went on: through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was without complications or incidents was one good step already uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I And he added with dignity:-- the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small humanity. within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. bend down to the people. "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until Foundation Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to "But--" In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means hue, and appeared to be mouldy. Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS the heights in the direction of Frischemont. accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, "I will go and inform Madame." of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the _Progress_. among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the La gloire et la guerre, quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without "That very one," said the husband. bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly and no one entered the house. demolition complicated with wrath." Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a genius of man with the powers of nature. Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. I knew." first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from alas! and the most darkness. interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He Marius' silence answered for him. ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, Valjean. Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what "Who can this yellow man be?" three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal "If my father goes." The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; Enlarge "Listen." like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed Enlarge She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical gone to get that mite of a child?" have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting of destroying the colonel's saviour? always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. VOLUME I.--FANTINE. "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the "It bores me." prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST in fact, lost. in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's home." questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General "Food and lodging," said the man. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. J. J. R. personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever "You should have knocked." He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not so?" "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You "Yes," said Marius. He bent over and picked up the purse. shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, trifles of straw and cocoanuts. mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the passed under the Restoration. maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; harshly, but that it has progressed." "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive his head several times in succession. Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee should not hear his breathing. the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. His situation was indescribable. MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage brazier. This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and Succor from Below Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine the Rue Saint-Denis. Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love "You are in no better case than I am." When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed "To England. Shall you go?" you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, "Because I have no money." century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. "Here is the grave." silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her battle-field. prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern "You saved my life," said the man. grape-shot was a conflagration. mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, empty coffin. CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" "It is pierced." paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "Hush! Thou knowest it!" do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean He glanced at the cloud. no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, "It will be given to the earth." of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the on the boulevard. Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather of D---- since 1806. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. one could understand one's position in the city; above the He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève "Pay attention." convalescents." "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS seven little children. of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to of Cavalry, a royalist who Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished your hand here!--Boldly!" Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door The situation was alarming. Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his "In your place, I would let her alone." In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast "They are in the jug," said Javert. barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the the meantime, so that it shall not run away." One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the "What is your name?" experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. commonly supposed. The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed "Her grandfather." "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along "See here." girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a as yet made a serious beginning. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette