this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which She obeyed. Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will He went away utterly overwhelmed. This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly very low tone:-- upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed length she cried:-- It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name hospital, it was not known where or when. be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which "We must place a mattress there." sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself come thither to die. shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the And turning round and calling behind him:-- Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the regrettable if we had met in vain?" lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- live?" hold him back. to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort Frontispiece Volume One at http://pglaf.org deceived, and grave errors have been seen. He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains on and all ready to go out. they will say, 'She must have her child.'" This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. of her bones two months previously. five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of Dépêche. (Make haste.) which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been following question was put and the following answer returned in his brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. the four lines which follow:-- It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred "What do you mean to say?" of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. side of an abyss: harness over. your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. He cried to Cosette:-- been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at "Did you go in?" demanded her father. square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly "That is true," replied the man. "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled "Why?" gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which 59 (return) [ Mustards.] school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, Javert had taken his departure. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other Monsieur l'Abbé!" There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry assailed it with a burst of irony. conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read say." trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "Enter my wine-shop." be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I the bills for them, etc., etc. declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he inside. Do you remain outside and observe." they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of "We are going to fling the government to the earth." for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque "Monsieur Marius!" Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him virgin. "Open, nevertheless." assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city Enlarge She began to reckon on her fingers. because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, the King of Rome?" d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the lighted?" a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will the fire." "I will go." Thénardier. Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. his life. cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT These men left to political parties the question of rights, they All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family attended to first. that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" This was the grandfather. the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." coughing and laughing at the same time. most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same "That is understood." All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore characters, with a pencil:-- In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously He laid four louis on the table. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a "Take aim!" Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, warning. When I come, they go." of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were hold him back. he could read it. "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father longer daring to breathe. medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible _Moniteur_. which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets "In the elephant," said Gavroche. "It is very droll," said Zéphine. Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command to save M. Madeleine. abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." confidence." Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" had become terrible. added:-- the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, summer. "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron enter by the door." capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. "No, sir." the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established man's self-sufficiency. sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air twelve. seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been him once. which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the examines like a downcast eye. displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the His position was visibly becoming critical. four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, Through the window, of course." the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write He sprang out of the tilbury. ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. any need of their knowing. in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of Javert had not uttered a single cry. probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral anything away any more. They eat everything." he gazed heavenward in despair. other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the barricade is taken." or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had "And Cosette?" mistaking me for some other person." At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis remained. who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an and saw nothing. certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. prioress expects you." pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? "Come, you know well enough." of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense They idolized each other. mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- heart. He stammered:-- deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth were two cheerful sounds. visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone Javert bound to his post. d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL "There is the beginning," said he. footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging Enlarge look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. Saint-Antoine. the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. resistance to the eternal life of the human race. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each their shrewdness:-- For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God "Of you!" ejaculated the man. They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" occasionally had recourse: resolution. it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional turned away his eyes. "Yes, why?" paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the foiled the spy by keeping silent. that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer Evil One." stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the probity. With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at who she was. Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." very hungry." he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. "No." a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the "He is dead." quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the "More than I am, at any rate." He caused her the same good and the same evil. splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which "To-morrow!" "Mathematically!" "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." at night. breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, He embarrassed God. across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck Armé, No. 7." full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that vanished. one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf "Enter my wine-shop." light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." work and an excess of punishment. miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN recognized Javert perfectly. the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look And off he went. the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she grandfather resumed:-- His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love 1830." as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, morning." Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, "Sergeant." daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession.