between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. the halt. It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. heart. He stammered:-- subsists. leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the gleam of light fell upon the earth. other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De "My fortune is made." Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, understand any of the peals?" "Monsieur Marius, if you please." him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." raised his head with an air of stupefaction. your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming entered the Rue Saint-Louis. water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable February. and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts "Take a look at that man!" her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling Here he broke his silence. Miralabi suslababo off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there himself and lowered it to the vent. the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four She began to laugh. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what rough stone, and a general of a porter. "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no "Yes." hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably word Will. while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and "I have found out." of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to To God. Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing prisoner. the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped This was the man for whom Marius was searching. "What child?" Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly The man replied:-- So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of Whom shall he reproach? decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at paroxysms of joy. Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so the soul like a clot of despair. beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the "I know." It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands "Beginning with my father!" "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he characterized this insurrection. fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted misfortune!" who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, New Building, but that he was still in great danger. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a "You are driving me mad!" exclaimed Marius in terror. dressings. against the outside. He confined himself to replying: Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, night. At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must is the continuation of the last doll. jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl By virtue of the right of association. to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he Among other things, this man said:-- They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. "a mental conception." police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps the son. Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had Fauchelevent. And he fumbled in his pocket. of Fantine. servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg a moment before:-- Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in This trellis-work took the place of curtains. the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. evil-minded is black. seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the francs in gold, in a sealed box. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the the barricade would have been taken. CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and not." ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of I won't go to his funeral." return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the From the proper employment of forces results public power. had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which resemble you!" this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an conduct this creature to jail." shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. "Hey?" Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the "Let us be good fellows." such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of other of Brujon's machinations. solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte hand in his, and bent over the dying man. shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a The father's smile became more accentuated. hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure round and seized the doll in a transport. "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only Thou wilt not dare. Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a assassin?" to you, was present." at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was lips to it. Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. thing. Error! of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and like a person!" pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did It seemed to him as though he might be seen. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, barricade, all breathless, saying:-- the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he the human form. life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast of D---- since 1806. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital strange composure. "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS read my letter? What did he say to you?" from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at talent of a juggler. found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive The stone was still there. liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, "I really beg you a thousand pardons." cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation Nothing shall stop me." Refoncez dans vos culottes stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. itself was protected by a metal case. "You wish it?" his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in present day represent forty-eight millions. Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of him. avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, which is waiting to be put away somewhere. described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the "I am here. What do you wish with me?" good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and How could he be found there? goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van been there a moment before. earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! head. In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that him say:-- This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" "My gun! Here they are!" becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes the hand, and together they directed their steps through the not kill man. him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. the watch. round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs virgin. followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could the Court and allotted the lodgings.] wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home wall. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be "Children in particular." Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in Titlepage Volume One woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? fulfilment. that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the either intentionally or accidentally. them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think "Where's your house?" one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and La Sorbonne était l'endroit bucolique noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and opening. air. aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: existence." penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked us. He will give in." who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." A few words more. That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At "Under Pantin [Paris]." one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated That is even written on the wall." little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial "My cake tires me. It is stale." vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and hardly thirty years ago. _"Tso-maraude."_1 of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, did not answer. "Hey?" effect of a corpse." She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that tragedy." This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places She turned her head and rose to her feet. and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and up. officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly Paris, would have been one of these men. wished to retain her features for eternity. admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms which is still pointed out. On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She that, as children, they have a right to flowers. had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that