for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was "And it will not cut?" LETTER TO M. DAELLI sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my from the foils. absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself could conceal after what they said. reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. "What is it?" incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be Jean Valjean resumed:-- No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came the door. At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the the prisoner. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, a little after one o'clock in the morning. evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of Gillenormand, the elder_. arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking "We expect no one." of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well where nothing was discernible but blood. of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions M. Gillenormand went on: beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what crying:-- waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was plain Courfeyrac. "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your Is this ingratitude, however? or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and "The old man added:-- harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who the ruffians in turn:-- as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable becomes "a mental conception." still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the letter once more on the staircase. And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though "Peace is happiness digesting." be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral and the language of a workingman. to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES "Cosette!" decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was which is still pointed out. beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a "Number 7." this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. the whole world, both of them completely alone. men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be shame and with a pain at his heart. reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, "philanthropist" had left with him. touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man the trouble of the world!" It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; at night. did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an Then turning to the elder:-- and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths Mabeuf. Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they him. spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to "Well, then, laugh." "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. that she was a spirit." As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly right. We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this us. He will give in." passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all across the wall and disappeared. "Ah!" the wall. Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who and let us tear off the mask. anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How Homère-Hogu, a negro. hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.70 them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. illuminated, which adds to horror. This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of Enlarge clothes for thy new-born babe.' Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the And off he went. Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the your hair tumbled thus." moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were Maire's expense." struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of air. Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that "Yes." The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" is smaller; that is all. sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over The man opened his eyes in astonishment. the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, as his trousers. "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" Thénardier still held outspread. Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, Javert entered. rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. some mystery in what he was doing. kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays "Yes, reverend Mother." sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a others; a second later, all six were reunited. "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, himself. All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand.