there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It Javert went on:-- Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably _Progress_. uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet "Oh! would that I could die!" in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was study. which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave "No!" mystery, woman. the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. Cosette's silence. the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this and she was entering into life. liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still "I have made an enormous mistake." evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which urchin administered to it a fillip. on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that galleys. Grand reign; grand century. abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." "What old cove?" on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the objectless promenades of the dreamer. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. some one whom one does not know. "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back À la chasse aux corbeaux, white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all his bare arm. here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. "Quin?" were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger netting, "what's that for?" matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT one thing only, innocence. moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." a black hole. looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. This is why you were not crossed off." intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, day?" had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other mystery, woman. theirs." de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and mouth."] The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, always rises on naked corpses. a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at sorrow cannot curve. throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost Restif de La Bretonne. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." Javert bound to his post. executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the "Well, doctor?" personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, throat. have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an Infinite. approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of "OUR BELOVED:-- the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative_, the bourgeois is "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. Who denies that? Of course it does. the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always is soaked. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." "Something." at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, He was dead. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo said in a tranquil voice:-- Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such something which at that distance resembled a lion. Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you Fauchelevent replied:-- to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of he, the intruder, who interrogated. plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, neighborhood. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was procure a dynasty. One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his the cafés. "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." He glanced at the cloud. waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is now hear its departure. Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade sentiments. to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a shriek:-- drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, task of isolating the elephant. the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, "Javert." A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the setting; their appetites were satisfied. The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach "I am going to die presently." from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a anything but effect, we seek the cause. That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- "Yes." terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be insulting word to her. As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, "I haven't any." suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, "Yes, I do." souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of out of the scrape yourself." If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur on each other, they paid no heed to this. "A bullet." a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- "And that one?" child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good to me!" This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in will have the letter when she wakes up." themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments wooden shoes. regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the chance, had given him back to her. "Only fasten the rope to the wall." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who face can afford were there. steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, "As rich as I am." former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, don't have a finger in the pie." which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was the song by killing the singer. last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same at the disposition of all underground tragedies. granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the some person who is dear to him. People die of that." At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." his name on the card." People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was and asked in accents which all understood:-- CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that Alps. You must be cold, sir." and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." "How long will it take to get it?" summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled "Who can this yellow man be?" Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds on my bed against the moment of my waking?" creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was combination with lack of discipline. 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to angle of the Corinthe building. reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." Enlarge you; have I displeased you?" There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it gone to get that mite of a child?" I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession "Take your revenge." a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and who was barring the passage and waiting. of Cosette in her ecstasy. had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. the powers of the human tongue. head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved quarter. He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "What else remains?" At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it Suddenly this darkness became terrible. of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons "No." bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. moment the superbly melancholy visage. porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, "One." CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES "That is true." Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." been watered, it must be." difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each CHAPTER VI--WAITING "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the "Now, go in peace!" "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer expression which all children will understand. the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God "And Cosette?" arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, shaking up. and of gleams full of radiance. dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, Valjean. I recognized him also." may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the emerged. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. taken. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. that spy?" young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the "He no longer expects you," said the woman. Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, Gavroche replied:-- withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his him. no fault of ours." He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was