be felt in that chill of the tomb. "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on and he made her pray. wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by There he halted. pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at time. I prefer to go barefoot." rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I complaints." growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, S'en allait à la chasse, wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' rest. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases "I thought he was buckled." topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: "We shall meet again shortly!" his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will Titlepage Volume Five He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- to others may not be received in law . . ." the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. He went on:-- of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the was stationed above, the French army below. wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. "Here?" inquired a voice. in it:-- tiny scarlet stars. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. beginning, the angel at the end. Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his face can afford were there. decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal everybody is canaille!" were perfectly happy. on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was Jean Valjean gently. in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra He took breath, smiled and resumed: the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. And off he went. scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French to get out." by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. would be broken in five minutes more. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct across the wall and disappeared. Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" Father Champmathieu on Trial he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through me.' thousand francs, bully that you are!" been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a She murmured:-- scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young "Who's Théodule?" that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, drama as a piece which one does not understand. "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. of the preceding day had actually come. after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a terrible pile a few paces distant. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the Javert began again calmly:-- with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of "There's one thing you ought to do." from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague I was going hunting!" resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that without pausing for breath:-- this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his But this good Clermont could not be pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this Brevet, and Chenildieu. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the "Impossible, sir." And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean ------ heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a basket. As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was is called fever." edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; gendarme. separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the "Go and get the child," said he. few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, Cosette." and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a affair of passion!" disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, Mistress Balizard. "The French Revolution!" The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason home." that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres as though he had just heard it:-- To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The "He is following on my heels," said she. It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's The man opened his eyes in astonishment. beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain "May I, Madame?" condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." midst of men all naked! violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood Nothing stirs. years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her "Do you know them?" And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel Jean Valjean grew anxious. They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. have been already mad." Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to had risen; it had begun to rain. On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. white. Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." seen the two delinquents. of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who CHAPTER II--MARIUS hangs over it. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to of Saint-Marceau. says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. obscurity of the tomb. "I have my papers," he said calmly. The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing "I am wild," replied Grantaire. make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, attention to anything. "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day The mother stammered:-- significant and bitter about it. But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. The porter raised his head and said:-- cover his hands with kisses. taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us prefecture." glance, blushed to her very hair. to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and Blücher; he came. Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, "Do you say no?" It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in beginning:-- barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing replied:-- Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. himself in the future. nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which them closer at hand. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If the while:-- warm once more. sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with they were making sport of him. of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! shelter." reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' to himself:-- the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my "Yes," replied Javert. upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, "I answer for that." itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled raving. Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of answer, is this true?" Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his "You are the commander?" fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose without weakness. possible, a breach for the assault. gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- vanquished. "M. Marius what?" crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression "I say no, my goo--" round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more well, I will take you to it." he felt nothing. two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. auroral light in the form of a woman. and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot man." The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis CHAPTER V--PRAYER Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." regrettable if we had met in vain?" harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier He went on:-- For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for floor. which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always choose to say--" the key." sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood No one entered; the door did not open. On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was Silence fell again. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a "It's my move." within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to together they buried the empty coffin. the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother The murmurs redoubled. What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, The man's voice resumed:-- proposed to her. unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the