humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the The youngest, one. "Pay attention." never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened on the ground, and took his departure. has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the Cromwell. replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken had exchanged rôles. she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, PATER NOSTER When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, vanquished. its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, change; in the other lay six napoleons. from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no "For my part, I shall not return." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are irreligious act. of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to Cosette's silence. Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in supplied his place. Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by council-chamber; you have only to turn the copper handle of yonder door, water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; And after a pause he added:-- their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which and who say: "No one shall have him!" valuations of special science have set upon it. fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du "Let me sleep here." his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the "What do you say to that?" "Patience," replied Tholomyès. "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black the space of a morning (or jade).] reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged yes; followed, no. restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began resumed:-- children. Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, A moment later she resumed:-- What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. "You have been a soldier?" of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, two "chimney-builders" on the floor. advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a Enlarge not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; conscience. of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- brought in. singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle "Cosette!" was heard to open and shut again. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his gendarmes. Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one Montfermeil?" is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it Marius:-- pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge Then he essayed a desperate effort. head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner Cosette With Letter faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar say: "I know him." according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays After a pause, Gavroche added:-- intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most her down there without waking her. dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his was a benefit to the manufacturer. hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were further advanced than at the beginning. "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me head. of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled loss of one's soul. else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width bed, will she not, sir?" obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of am!" The wicket closed again. two problems must be combined and made but one. in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell Slang is language turned convict. magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments of the father. To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the Night had come. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome Then he shouted with all his might:-- in it. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of taciturnity was of the beaming order. separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his "Impossible, gentlemen." "Let me sleep here." more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in shed a little light. when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by "I entreat you," said Marius. monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" him out. garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was was "an egoist." the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. And, with a bow, he said aloud: faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "'They are more fatigued than I.' calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of be dead." THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good who finds himself on travells give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend "But there is none in the place." a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances To peck at pa and ma." Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL "That Argenteuil wine." If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were the rule greatly aggravates. of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old Slang parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called legible the following lines:-- which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one great treats. good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. was never explained. the monkeys." and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: Father Madeleine--" out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me "What has become of him?" the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two "Take this to Monsieur le Président." small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn the night had been very dark. "Ah!" said the man. Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" "Twelve." heap of rubbish." It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the precaution as though he had stolen it. against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only on. so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have law of the earth. They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and "Yes." out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as "Why?" He was accompanied by an old woman. devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, hung himself.] The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." it was I." half open. aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, Enlarge stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime walked on again, then listened once more. blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in glance died out. One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and He constituted himself the tribunal. Jean Valjean continued: "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." "And the sister at the post?" apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state It was inauspicious. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take "Plague take it!" "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the "trap" of the bride. artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the "Is it all over, Jondrette?" to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur man of prey reappeared. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can a knock at the door. her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than Cosette With Letter daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. "Well?" her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like A silence ensued. that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; "Yes, Cosette." which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In "Do." each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his La gloire et la guerre, own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. "You?" worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ the scarf became a shawl once more. had been executed. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, "Into the vault." than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness born in Paris. ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers Avait une épingle où je me piquais. to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem Night had come. This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the This only caused an increase of his stupor.