one of the divisions of the social order. there. tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep that is to say, terrible. the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his guilty of the fault of going straight. Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, low. "I must be there this evening." possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty the prison."_ blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 "Come in," he said feebly. popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she "Fours." "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. porch, and entered the courtyard. month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, still about fifty francs in debt. "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- fall from his pocket. possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor there were no longer any lanterns. of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. there. was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS right or to the left. and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend some diversion shall arise. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. thoughts in these tranquil words:-- and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened dazzled as he gazed upon it. rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his "I will close it again." a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they order. "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely will perform miracles." bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and the few following lines: the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable "Yes." could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing riches. And this was his doing. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed be understood. her journey, and had reached M. sur M. On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment "Don't you see the grape-shot?" cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had themselves, he said, "It is a pity." Montfermeil?" alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am reader will remember, nailed up. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and checker-board." bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic this illuminated space. I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that mind. which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the they had contained but one soul. irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to man. the one to give that terrible outcry. to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, for his grandfather. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of pray at all. "Marius Pontmercy." dismiss the fiacre." leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral better off with him than with me." purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET "You love me, then?" Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The each other for support. great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit his glance dropped to the four uniforms. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an become black. "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the "I know." over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he see here!" and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to "What will you say to them?" In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! fixedly. instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a This word struck Marius. on high. in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each misery of the child. head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not anything away any more. They eat everything." The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their even saw the sun. said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the shelter." war." This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was shriek:-- it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. in the side pocket of his coat. Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of others; a second later, all six were reunited. and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. answered, "I have money." have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with into the street. the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!