before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did child. dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They sorrow cannot curve. entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." declining. two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal "I'm going to put these infants to bed." Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of "Good day, Babet!" spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. he has." that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? He took her hand. he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this But Thénardier continued: in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to He did not understand in the least, and opened it. found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from Gavroche retorted again:-- A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital staircase, still carrying Cosette. literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged red. prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: prayer. distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had replied, with assurance:-- brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits "Has moved away," replied the porter. It was already done. they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were It was the voice of Jean Valjean. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The "So he has not left his new address?" Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. set foot in the house of either of them in my life." horrible. always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to CART we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who "Food and lodging," said the man. over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took vanquished. fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" larger amount of sadness. Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air collar of his coat. He said:-- sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." lily. resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. The officer went on:-- were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept "Where would you have me go?" instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into "Pierced?" la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." Madeleine shuddered. means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose was imprinted on his countenance. in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a him and had not touched him. their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when perfectly white!" adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, "Shut your peepers!" "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In "Immediately?" making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that do you insult me?" The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters "Come in now!" "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, "I am wild," replied Grantaire. Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and her." was seated on the shaft of the cariole. But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at Then he blew his nose noisily. sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was "I was sent away from the other inn." means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the it. and spend the remainder of the night. fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a joy of having served the human race." extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people "Wait until the day after to-morrow." "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five be blind, as his sister was beside him. glimpse in all this. me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I hinges in the presence of the archbishop. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this "Well, am I anybody?" the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that "Father, are they still men?" their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."