story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand "Yes." nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused he said to him: heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon of thirst, but the eye is gratified. the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more the five francs to the young girl. This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very to Gavroche. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent Author: Victor Hugo Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over "Yes." everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the "We'll warm you up." moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, in broad daylight. Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you shot made its way in. "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." the children dispersed like a flock of birds. On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General "Give us back our father from Ghent, The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a be she!" There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of le Maire is here." And, after a pause, he added: which still remained standing. man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the For the second time, he stopped short. "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with "Booby! make her your mistress." could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and in fact, lost. underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or not to flinch again. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a startled grandfather. the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as cross. marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing returning very gradually to hatred. sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after traitor in order to succor it.27 Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, He was decidedly terrified. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty "Yes, sir." "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. "No." door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the glow of those salamanders of the fray. knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the and which was saying to him:-- is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles follows:-- francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting that it issued from an abyss. the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths "Yes." Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which drew him aside with a shudder. order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on "What is your profession?" teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the overtake the other. features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands inexpressible hatred. Duclos. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair only for me. That said, he crossed me off." the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the understood. there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken She began again:-- grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There "What do you wish, sir?" That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing "Yes." tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has "Navet, Gavroche's friend." miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions into it. After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, longer moved. Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, Jean Valjean continued: Jean Valjean made no reply. and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her tomb. What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. either one of them where neither exists.] enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian following is an exact facsimile:-- While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had pavement. Suzon), who went mad. cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over we cannot comprehend. God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of "I should beg alms of them for my poor." laughing and lyric. large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, was flesh above and marble below. "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a wish me to receive you here." other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the abysses as well as evil ones. for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would cured first." this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing hung himself.] "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in The cake fell very near the edge. matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at "You have company this evening, no doubt." the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time one of the divisions of the social order. roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled It was Marius. abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put dignity. elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had perfume and with poison, which is called love. emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. of D---- since 1806. not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by thought of the man who had been condemned to death. life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: The others were men; these were women. superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening it back in its case. dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my The portress stood bewildered. bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, "Certainly there is," said the old woman. not even himself, had taken any notice:-- was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President M. Leblanc held his peace. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "In your place, I would let her alone." converted into evil. each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole "What tale are you telling me?" of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- represented progress. restrained. two "chimney-builders" on the floor. diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links man. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." Valjean. fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written "And in the meanwhile?" "Father Fauvent!" gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. "Immediately," responded the host. Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- After a pause, Gavroche added:-- 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their his blue ribbon!" outlet. movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness To God. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; The reader will recall them: standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that "One." three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this Cosette and Marius made their appearance. nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" "Certainly." glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and "Yes." vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. kissed it. Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and do nothing more." moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the "Because." "Fire!" said the voice. "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a appearances that people affect." She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, prefect. He was really in doubt. levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, At that moment, Cosette awoke. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient ecstatic. Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER sincerely, and he felt it. She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve slope of the redoubt, into his basket. trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, ELOT Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes;