d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the He was troubled from all these points of view. "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." CHAPTER I--PARVULUS CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE years between them, but they already represented the whole society of its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy "In my house? no," said he. him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the at http://pglaf.org It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le which he had purchased. "What?" except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he To God. long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine The man turned round. Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with you." The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, authorities." As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously It was our man and Cosette. I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word at your trade of lawyer?" The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of "A certain--What did you say the name was?" This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside "I." The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he What verses? These:-- And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at catastrophes. One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself together they buried the empty coffin. matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the Fauchelevent went on:-- own. write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; her:-- vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, rat_ in his hand. a moment before:-- death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His shivered. "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of Great strategists have their eclipses. woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He "Well?" said Jean Valjean. have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He "Climb up that flue." of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which The day had been adorable. "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a "Come have a drink," said he. pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than 1830." answered, "I have money." "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was CHAPTER I single spot of intelligence. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick Fauchelevent fell on his knees. was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that turned round and said abruptly:-- "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her prefecture." everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still which would fit the sou. These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." house? actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it Below the last line he signed: forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from Courfeyrac said to him:-- "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] "Five leagues." to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night balance of light and darkness. give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a crawled. They were one against sixty. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the And she presented her other cheek. And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected quarters. Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few produced a gentle, monotonous noise. These things are charming when one distance. He read:-- "What, really? You are sure?" The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National alas! and the most darkness. law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king "My name is Cosette." Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The time he did not return. that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. He loosed her hands. Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he say timidly:-- the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of "He travels." But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage A third peal created a diversion. Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or "The proof that God is good is that she is here." one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time Jean Valjean continued: dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, Fantine inquired:-- "A tear of dew! A little pity!" the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. The fifteen-sou piece was not there. escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something "I am very sorry--" window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The "There is no room." the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying "Here; this is for you." call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than "Here?" inquired a voice. "Good devils even," said the Bishop. "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him "Who was your leader?" building. It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. "Did you go in?" demanded her father. corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES "A watch." of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other five-story building which separated the two court-yards. a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with emerged. everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in infirmities of ideal passions! them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." was on the verge of swooning. nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it children drew close to Gavroche. have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell "I am listening." who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no "But we must live, we must eat--" "What is it?" was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to man of prey reappeared. trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as genius of man with the powers of nature. each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without "Do you love me?" had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the him from his lethargy. too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct Courfeyrac entered the cab. researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the as his trousers. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing "The deuce!" Marius bitterly:-- that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and certain fresh access of life. am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, Fauchelevent repeated:-- Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. this time all had come. Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that From whom? From misery. his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius AUSTERLITS considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following "Yes." deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old has entered here. Who are you, sir?" side of an abyss: Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter now." who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one bawling about that. They must be greenies!" There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- is not a caste. At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame Marseillaise. the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper in horror. start, "Go away!" "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or hedge. and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased the stars. extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an He demanded in a weak voice:-- tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert "The deuce!" Jean Valjean grew anxious. to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH "I pay no attention to any but my own." ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on accomplished by a simple elevation of level. Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent And she offered him her cheek. it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze silence. O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in hospital expenses. congealed state:-- That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the Courfeyrac said. of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until perfume and with poison, which is called love. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards "I have ten francs left," said Marius. saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE can one earn a hundred sous a day?" afterwards? charcoal ready." CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my said to the spy:-- One last word. others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted and the difficulty of procuring a passport. Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not gentleness. am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal cannon battering the barricade. ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed He added between his teeth:-- "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better In this bed Cosette was sleeping. It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that "What?"