historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly "The vault under the altar?" The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his pay it." around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, "The plate is quite full." the hand, and together they directed their steps through the "You knocked him over cheap," said he. still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they "And great haste is required." chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we DISEMBARKING refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and one else. will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's "And you are to be turned out of this one." carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at this, the barricade burst into a laugh. the key." seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of This hovel was only one story high. sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was "Let us knock!" vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely He sprang out of the tilbury. Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze And the long-haired one began again:-- mysterious explanation. The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES "You wished to be Madame. You are so." "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. She went on:-- All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to man's throat. francs." "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." roof was slippery. king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, called him Bossuet. Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, despair. given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered Night was falling. He went on:-- The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou It was our man and Cosette. after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." After a pause he added: The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a +------------------------------------------------------------+ Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, accents:-- upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, All retired towards the door. drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. "More often!" many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times Madeleine turn round. yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell she asked him:-- instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the all, intermittences of hope. clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. against a surprise. public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the prayer. And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me "I am entirely devoted to the convent." was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- the third; this is what remained:-- "She will grow up ugly." the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, He replied:-- ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full "You thanked me a while ago." Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they precisely the idea of which I was in search." turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of thus gained, in fact. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the ivory-handled knife which I use at table. "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, "Oh, you who are! cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be "A young man who used to come here." authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in God. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august. In order "What old cove?" grumbled:-- "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, not look at you and never smiled at you. Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty "And I," said the host, "have no room." hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is without pausing for breath:-- myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. from Madeleine:-- at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! BAPTISTINE. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, The woman nodded affirmatively. the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. "There is no one but me." bowed before the decision. he no longer had any, he visited the rich. Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair behind her. The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth went and came from one room to another. of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns take any notice of this sad side of his success. their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he "Wait until the day after to-morrow." now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only elixirs. towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. to say, repose. intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven economy in illumination. ill? Do you suffer?" cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say guards a secret like a child. king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the She murmured:-- catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ rapid but very low tone:-- inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. "As rich as I am." Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of AUSTERLITS the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a represent? The assassinated sage. faith. degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached was charged. gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due enigmatical list:-- sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical took place. stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and "Where is he living now?" Here a fresh crisis declared itself. trip was too hard for them, he went alone. that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for said: "Is there fighting on hand?" more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng us. We shall not loose our hold of you." day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the long time?' even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We off. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come become any paler. one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the "When the vault is open--" revery. June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- come to that. CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this aunt.'" XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de Pratiquez la vertu, did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or "And that one?" an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would Then he rose, and turned to Javert. prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" said that amazement has its lightning flashes. courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, and weeds, and died. accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a "I? I work." extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you "It was your play, I believe?" halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was "My name?" beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, complaint? to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group said:-- had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in Nihilism has no point. dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very compassion for the old man. "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had "Jean Valjean." rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy respectable old man. "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that He bent over and picked up the purse. of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." was changing its aspect every moment. Favourite shrugged her shoulders. tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to a dog!" the picture. The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the Grantaire. Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had It was he. it. still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING blessing." seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and things, the true historian mingles in everything. Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis "What?" asked Marius. up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely Or:-- Slang and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick bewildered eye. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, "They will rob you, Monseigneur." recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for child." shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, in the banlieue. arrested." felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost PREFACE And Dahlia exclaimed:-- What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm anything to add to your defence?" soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its the window, and nearest to the fireplace. However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. place. under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was contented himself with saying:-- "Lay down your arms!" woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. Then he added:-- pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in "You can read it," said he. With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have adventure in the ideal. understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since appeal:-- disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean