had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the "You will get something for dinner." The carter was a German and did not understand him. the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee to an unhappy soul. nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he white hair, I have lost my teeth, I am losing my legs, I am losing my under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, however, preclude simplicity. him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we well say six hundred thousand!" paying for it." at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF First problem: To produce wealth. "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence It was the Jondrette girl. life!" the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." "But I can surely hire a horse in the village?" his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old "My hands are benumbed." shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and "That is true." One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, "You love me, then?" only see the ground at a great depth below him. arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with "Not for you, father." in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up of man, love. 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. "What is the name of yonder man?" rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with "Look at the happiness of others." angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood The officer went on:-- CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a in the future." away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to she did so:-- childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, Waterloo protects you." you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the "Forward march to the battle!" They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath "You will see." It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards hue, and appeared to be mouldy. man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears of the eleven thousand devils." second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded "Do you permit it?" "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. He continued to advance. man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who what it termed our encroachments were our rights. there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his staircase. "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and rusty hinge had not awakened any one. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin dead man at the third-story window. convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like "I did not understand what you said." half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly had lodged a child there. words:-- opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. the Seine. Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, "It was not good for her; it hurt her. was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack Cosette recoiled. The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his which Marius had observed. afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to The boy surveyed her. And as he ran:-- sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." sister?" Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his "His name is Jean Valjean." his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the added:-- "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you abdicates from suffering? something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape his hair and trickled down upon his temples. Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of evident Jacquerie:-- youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim and the language of a workingman. still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of They replied: situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at "Ten francs." We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. to him. I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that that they give you suck." liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the "And what do those girls do?" bier. twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that Mon triste cour suivra partout.