old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring wall which faced the tavern:-- sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. by Haydn. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who will pay as though I occupied a room." which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him "Thou knowest . . ." "He did not say when." had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have Fantine was singing:-- to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force its neck. before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor "What is it?" "Father!" said Cosette. handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but happened? CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Caught!" dead of the night. farce." It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed The Bishop turned to the man. having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" stammered:-- "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. away with you." from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to man who had violated it. Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's dear." aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again had been able to remain in France. "Do you say no?" from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. "To penal servitude?" the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, and seeing what was going on in the street. were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written of the street. "Lovely things we will buy So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he much did you say that you owed?" M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch She began again:-- question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near "My name is Cosette." that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four "Is the team harnessed?" "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." "I wish to surprise him." fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have a bell. He rang. The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. being very rare in vegetation. must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop "Will you take yourself off!" at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the "Where is the Argenteuil?" sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The _"De profundis." _ Marius grasped both her arms at once. and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly "Swear one thing to me!" inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking felt cold because of that open window. Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but "Why?" Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had movement, which enlarged the opening a little. "How much is it?" at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to "What do you say?" satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen "Yes," replied the mother. two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch resumed:-- always turn on their peg. following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent old-clothes broker at the Temple. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. produced, and said to the cannon: without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and And he added with dignity:-- I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is profound anxiety. manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I "The empty coffin remains." "And your reason?" fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man "His name is Jean Valjean." the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him kissed it. smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic quarters. who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, Some one said:-- But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT grape-shot was a conflagration. his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, you so." upon you!" mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, ferocious beast. leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite evidently." "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked the lantern. almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor chamber without saying a word. his post of observation. the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was sublimity of prayer. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had It was the doctor entering. Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should of the tap-room. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir age, he had reached the hole in the partition. such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" Cosette's dreams. shouted:-- which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the of a hated individual. did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "It is not that." Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with child." birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; Enlarge were two cheerful sounds. Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The They ascended to the first floor. of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in hands seeking their guns became audible. they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She Service was written _servisse_. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be the abysses of the universe! engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, woman had done all this without being conscious of it. mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to And turning to Bigrenaille:-- was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. don't have a finger in the pie." After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce tolerable fluency:-- sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" "How should I know?" it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles preparing. "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats the Rue de Chaffaut. This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning francs. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation Paris, would have been one of these men. box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Pour Pantin. is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were "Monseigneur--" said he. in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a "Wife!" he cried. It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable "Pour avoir bu de grand matin risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the "Really?" Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a and the child. "Of you!" ejaculated the man. In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the night. It was a headlong flight. If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. stomach paralyzes the heart. when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. private." inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at close to the workingman, the second to the students. one in the crowd. hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the Whom shall he reproach? "Is it all over, Jondrette?" melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David That said, he totally forgot the lancer. was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild God." "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably his glance dropped to the four uniforms. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy "Let us break in the door!" Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild CHAPTER I In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, having given his deposition. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely hovel, but there was still tobacco. hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this fortify him in his resolution. virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much her teeth:-- She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could were written:-- arrival, in terrified somnolence. Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. "Father!" taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was the diver may disappear there. not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling sentence, and you cannot take an oath." One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial melted lead. Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the "What for?" at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered band of zinc. of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, that." reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we