table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated Fantine's despairing supplications. himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- Perpétue and Sister Simplice. bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last Valjean resumed: silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected "Well?" things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" linnets warble in the trees. A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. cardinal. going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "That makes forty francs." inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He assailed, scaled, and never captured. rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until came." The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! Jean Valjean took these little trips. represented progress. "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON "There's going to be a row!" making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty know well." daylight habitually illumined his soul. possess no transition state. Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and There came two taps at the door. thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the you." And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That a garden, and lone women." been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the father's grave. directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his wood full of violets. Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a "Where it went?" "What! so it's that imp!" arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. hour." and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white "Nothing." seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with "And the sister at the post?" "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real Alexandrine measure: "Number 7." have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. We have mentioned a lancer. Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from There he halted. and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. him--his father and his country. this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were Brujon in La Force miscarry. Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't Courfeyrac took his arm:-- Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man Thou wilt not dare. are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, with himself. Did she mean to go out? No. quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to "What child?" very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- knows who has been there or will be there." entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine "Thirty sous at least." years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had Whither? me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu remain?" tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of of having an attitude. "There." He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- in it:-- The little boys stared at him in surprise. He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation add:-- finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: that he had actually been guilty of theft. proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other stolen it." his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a one except in the evening." "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two The boy surveyed her. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there one in the town had heard hitherto:-- with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. And I am off to Palestine." What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point "Knock there." rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took replaced her. Why?" of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally very hungry." appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous declining. The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men she? What was she doing? sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what performed in the spring, was saying:-- retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the "Climb up that flue." For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he "Where is the entrance?" Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In terrible thing. "That's it." physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the great. pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put them. "How you do go on!" "He went to the barricade, and here he is." it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, to the violent state of his soul. over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he by passion. entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" "Why?" and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one Javert turned his back. street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. Fauchelevent to Gavroche. grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five place between the maskers and the crowd. whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came constantly reappears in it. the candle which was burning there. fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts amounted to seventy francs. Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte The Grandeurs of Despair "And that you are a rascal. Here." My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not "Sir?" were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the you so that you may be prepared." "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. She came and set her elbows on the table. The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. profound thing,--the French Revolution. rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my monstrous:-- advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, "What is that to me?" roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting Enlarge how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! every new wind. a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." Night had fully come. "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one chimney-pots. seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had Président only admits public functionaries to them." such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees Thénardier was a statesman. barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough think of him." the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. "Are you afraid?" was well earned. had disappeared, but in his heart. prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." sound. and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing Robespierre waistcoat. motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very derivative of the night. details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts "He is an ex-convict." therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: Whither? "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN "What is the matter with you?" fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that astonishment. as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the gaze. fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his There was no one there. first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very from the ruin. This elicited an exclamation from the workers. "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a from the rain and from all eyes:-- smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this Such was M. Myriel's budget. Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely good. "To penal servitude?" for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he disappointment to impatience. to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been difficulties of being a king. Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better VOLUME I.--FANTINE. have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, What does this signify? "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two twenty paces in advance of Marius. of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the Lark." will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light visible was that the street was deserted as usual. to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to lightning as that. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE "Yes." Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias "You will hand that bill to the man." On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this He began by putting himself on trial. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough "I thought he was buckled." shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to response:-- no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every is addressing me on the point of going mad?" dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with ought to keep them on all the time." a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; window. remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau this quest. not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. "But I must have my money." Take it. He says that here is haste." The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat.