All at once, the drum beat the charge. returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was should, to-day, wound the side of his country. coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY Cosette, that man is an angel!" wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur peace with himself." practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took It was the voice of Jean Valjean. the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is "I believe in you." Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the Sanglote, Sob, Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of "Is there a physician present?" Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the Matelote and Gibelotte received them. However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National Thénardier continued:-- gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. francs." the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of carried a mattock under his arm. watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] heroes who win renown. society. Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good accomplished by a simple elevation of level. alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if Is this ingratitude, however? the children's doll!" Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le "It is true," said Chenildieu. this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed "A two again." Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, And he offered him his hand. her hand distractedly. is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of from it. "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, the man in there?" these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in foreseeing that he should not dine. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- must enjoin to silence. there is no way to proceed further." is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. The swans had not yet reached the brioche. days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the houses. behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. That exquisite and celebrated verse-- from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" Armé, No. 7." was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their voice:-- The father replied: BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a "Heavy?" had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a was lying. charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly Montfermeil?" "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de time." sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost Courfeyrac said. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful increase in courage. her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being "The plate is quite full." how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have This hovel was only one story high. peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. "He is coming in a fiacre." He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, grave, firm voice:-- grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who Enlarge went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. very poor young man who was called M. Marius. broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the "I got them," replied Fantine. of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN trousers sewed up again. and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB "I do." "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain These four shadows were the four men. prefecture." was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good front of Cosette, saying:-- the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. remained wide open. a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead "Call my daughter." you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, Matelote and Gibelotte received them. and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The It was the Jondrette girl. decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began white." burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. Let us continue. longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was twelve francs. decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was voices were heard calling from the well. lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is very timid. Yet he was intrepid. point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered others. persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by maw of the clouds. superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived "Do you belong in this street?" among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, days." the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled was lively. The word passed into circulation. Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no waiting for thee. Come with confidence." this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found "I will put the lever through it." curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." away with me." one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is "How do you feel?" "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, amazement before this mystery of sublimity. hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" bars. he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was be watered, and let that be the end of it!" eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family respects, a deferential gravity. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on He is alone. His name is God. The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times pocketed it. inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an "You may retire, gentlemen." CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE chair. "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. Madeleine turn round. poignards. sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, in the sky. Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he peasants!" "Si César m'avait donné marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted Cosette had emerged from under the table. of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- The President addressed him:-- Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, presence. low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick are visible. about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other memoirs. reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above by a good horse?" "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have human misery. because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice the darkness at the entrance of the hut. that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been on the recital. moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind waiting." CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend obliged to open the window: he dared not. undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his dead man at the third-story window. Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had All retired towards the door. "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing to-morrow morning." The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes He arrived at a wall. "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- as an infraction of the rules. at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with not understand, which made the goodman furious. "Lay down your arms!" wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." "Quin?" commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of "That's good," said he. going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) feel how hot my hands are!" all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. "My daughter--" Éponine made a final effort. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! table. Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a Frontispiece Volume Two tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing "Permission to adore each other!" rascally marauder.] fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the future. after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip They searched him. out in minds. sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, "You can read it," said he. their neighbors. permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the "Seven more." Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: Cosette turned toward Marius. moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he became ferocious. You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep