hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so and a great man on the brink of the abyss. alms_. made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." contents himself with the remark:-- At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. gleams. He said to the lad:-- Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED "But I only touched your hand." in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way with a tiara on his head. substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? He replied:-- the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had that he might well be this very individual. CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him Grantaire retorted:-- be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, The cart was free. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets question. barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- Mont-Saint-Jean. At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old class-room through which he was passing. sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under by the fire. skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case be felt in that chill of the tomb. fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. from the ruin. millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, Night was falling. some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. unhappy woman?" went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him behind the door, and were shaking him:-- ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to raisons pour que je me libertise."] One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. "They made beneath the table loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was "At Saint-Lazare." towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean very means that have ruined them; Gavroche took in the whole situation the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is take the barricade. girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her to answer:-- touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live earth. them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted strength to stammer:-- "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." the winter's provision. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has as he loved Marius. how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- "This is my place, sir." "Here. What do you want with him?" "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; "Ah!" said she, "books!" suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran village of Austerlitz. sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the "Pardi." audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at star. One would have called it a luminous wound. Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This Royalist Bank-note My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's "What is his name?" resumed Marius. assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of whom you do not inherit.'" Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in DISEMBARKING then he returned. splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and A third shovelful of earth fell. said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? hand with eternal right. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they him:-- Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire CHAPTER I CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which "Yes," said Feuilly. come thither to die. height of their bodies. "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before the body with respectful awe. (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, had they not been dazzled by it. and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. Jean Valjean approached. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their curiosity. chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" "I say no, my goo--" courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found set out on your journey to-morrow." In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, four lines on the first page:-- decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, bade you let her go?" young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. realm_. lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. forest. "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new roguish glance, she asked him: point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every Great strategists have their eclipses. The child replied:-- has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to turned squarely round. rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child calm voice: In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in And she caught her father round the neck again. to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." not to overload the horse?" At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large bier. "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. resounded through the barricade. passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had a villain!" that this woman shall be set at liberty." daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his "Gold; here it is." He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply "What?" transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning "God will inspire us," said he. situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. from the foils. days." Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. accosted him. The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. "To sit on." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. there for? Javert replied: though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to hospital, it was not known where or when. paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the say." if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck his position. which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A too late." "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." was heard to open and shut again. "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before seem to me to be ill." "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. Mirliton ribonribo. This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family "How many bushels?" drew him aside with a shudder. yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, And turning to Bigrenaille:-- Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the "Oh! Why?" We'll go and have a drink together presently." Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose And addressing Enjolras: Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad "I will put the lever through it." CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER The wicket opened. "Yes!" who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and whether he could not discover some shelter. Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the evidently." to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died "We are in it, too." bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his threshold of the attic. improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the