he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have whose place Fauchelevent had taken. inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. strong-minded is an important item. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to hermetically again. said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- misfortune!" "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, "Yes." was a benefit to the manufacturer. did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than swing, and said:-- CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She as he knelt before the sister. useful." perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" Grelotte, Lolotte! OTHER Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. made there." consent. We will drink. After work, never before." drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of "I can't." "Twenty-three francs?" Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered round:-- say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their "Are you alone?" little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." and he said to himself: "It is he." It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." which began by the sacrifice of self. in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark else. "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was fashionable. Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities that "she had ways about her." There he halted. his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's terrible voice, "Who's there?" dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the their son. Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for with me?" by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it eating-house-keeper very far. indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that PREFACE The incomplete times in which we live. direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his FAMUEIL. them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. near, with melancholy undulations. that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly That moment arrived. mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In An instant later Cosette entered the public room. He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent Valjean. who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at "You are forgetting your coat, sir," said she. cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, a gentle voice:-- In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at And again he broke into a laugh. head that this was not so. "Have I not Marius?" She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so cries. of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and was charged. "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. illuminated from below. repress his sobs: knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not shed a little light. separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. want me here?" that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the fist,--such was the attack. your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his sleeve:-- were not made--" "It is midday," said Combeferre. Madeleine made no reply. the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible writhed. This had probably been written on the preceding night. his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the leaping and still laughing. "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these thousand years ago, "March on!" the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades of the tap-room. dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." Zi zi zi grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had self-sacrifice be exacted? "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would angle of the Corinthe building. very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth He finished her thought. his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on which finally attracted the attention of the swans. possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the resembled hesitation, broke it. booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; above. And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different years between them, but they already represented the whole society of interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient where nothing was discernible but blood. no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which "To be free," said Combeferre. way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the "What is it?" Marius sprang to his feet. head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It everybody is canaille!" guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic tiger, and fled. There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to And he knelt down. you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a tremble, but did not shake the door. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have The hole was empty. pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting through the Rue du Chaume. which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your how, and was not asleep. this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. "You?" And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease asleep and heard nothing more. Phrygian cap. 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke it's all the same to me, come on!" A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the Code Table please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate cudgel, the thin one. Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as audible. On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress repulsive in this light. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- Thénardier." "What am I to do with a stone?" comment in all the little local coteries. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the beyond. incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. Holy Father, Pius VII.--" For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing "She sulks at me with cruel patience." him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before had beheld her garter. something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I will do us no more harm." was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to the Rue de Chaffaut. the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said to him. mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men "Number 7." "What street?" "That is the thought which occurred to me." surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." "That is the thought which occurred to me." "A woman is never a man." no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be crumble and new ones rise. impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly "That was what I said to myself." "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but "A little." Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being he could read it. "In the elephant!" were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. "Little one, you are the Queen of France." On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the dearly!" all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit recall where he had dined that evening. You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's "Yes, and a hand stopping it." In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of pretty." in this manner. I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she "Do not weep," he said. enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of Why? overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes speed." Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to which would fit the sou. [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. gamin. As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being "Clear out!" Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you not ill. He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, revery. whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) "I will learn English and German." you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in there. galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world The woman remained motionless. sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny