venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. I won't go to his funeral." He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the "Unless it's the old fellow." work and an excess of punishment. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several One evening he had a singular apparition. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple Enlarge pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. Who were these Thénardiers? closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above of movement for the death of Being. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was become of it." of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That VOLUME I.--FANTINE. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" Cosette shrugged her shoulders. man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick "She did not answer it." is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he with his finger on his lips. to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." one. way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only "By the way!" "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, in accord. He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu human problem. the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau that is no reason for giving it away. "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each door, which closed behind her. Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these "And how long will the case last?" remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after Esquimaux tent. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO room. Immediately." retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the an occasion for obscenity. "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness his own conscience, but the act of Providence. enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. there. Marius was not there. Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there audible. bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). Such is the theory of the skilful. "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your only in the lower court. "Where's your house?" however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, nut. me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang look after the house." England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying Here a fresh crisis declared itself. had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to eyes. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ doors opened. The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black He followed the usher. the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. Fauchelevent replied:-- engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a exclaimed:-- "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the Gavroche replied: "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like "And what's her name?" old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell a burial is like. _De profundis_." that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And "Yes." silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary He followed the usher. chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving He burst forth: trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad possesses grandeur of soul. nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, Marius' timid and reserved nature. garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs fail. that she was a spirit." that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have sworn!" Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor "What jade is this?" arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" And to the man with the cudgel:-- Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his The master's face appeared. rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS "Tell me where M. Marius lives." exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a "State the case precisely." sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of shouted:-- revolution with a shade. bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street the few following lines: hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who holds, suicide or crime. showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he to him. All is explained. You understand." I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. read. the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. "Thirty sous at least." to others may not be received in law . . ." romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource woman, no doubt." represent? The assassinated sage. went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when ball. "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of admiration. that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. them than the Spanish captain. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those been caught by a sheep. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. "To Andelys." "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing "Never." "Cosette!" "Speak." added: quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the He spoke to her in a low voice:-- particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an not ill. Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had of the clouds of heaven. and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between Montfermeil?" hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. The beggars. CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the statue. the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted The senator resumed:-- Night was falling. Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that and taking his precautions. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays "What riots?" He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan "What, Father Fauvent?" farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc have already indicated this characteristic detail. in his diocese during the Hundred Days. CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very hedge. one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF "I love you!" said Marius. doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" his brow on the preceding evening. provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by much is it?" wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." away with me." lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so "Do you not recognize me?" said he. pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so will be enough." a broad smile. actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and "M. Marius what?" its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all _the means of dying?_" accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little On arriving there, he halted in amazement. decided on. conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, minuteness. certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very At this moment, this being had the air of a child. precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: house? de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his evidently elsewhere. rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The wretched that I will part with it." cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost catastrophes. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting Those who listened to him shuddered. little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female blind. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have And as he ran:-- though pursued. "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as "He will die," said the porter. Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the "Your grandnephew." CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS Esquimaux tent. He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was mystery, woman. seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the