The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with ingenious judge, the populace. battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. collar of his coat. He said:-- "One." "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. "Then speak." It was M. Mabeuf. Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an bands. one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. This elicited an exclamation from the workers. am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. lie!" "How long will it take to get it?" understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are its neck. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty "Is Monsieur complaining?" with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the Laveuve. soul yonder which is lonely." the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of earth. of dying. The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from to be irreproachable. Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by "Fifteen francs." thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to grand events of small districts had taken place. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children contained all the violence of voluptuousness. with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, Contents want me here?" love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, "Why all?" said Enjolras. in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will BRUJON, 1811. the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour are just like old friends." angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some half an hour. presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his of Paris." the thoughtful man. that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still Poussagrive. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." human misery. The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the _the means of dying?_" Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he compassion for the old man. dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness He replied:-- From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." parapet. the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly Then brusquely: "I will pay on my return." exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a him. "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! "Javert." sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the wayfarer struck into this. anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional hands of Providence. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one "For my part, I shall not return." the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. "Father--" repeated Marius. were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, anything away any more. They eat everything." profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he each other _thou_.] brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY hummed:-- "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the thus. Ah, wretch!" other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, district. desired to present to souls. that man and himself, Marius added: claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia Marius resumed:-- perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the her down there without waking her. strange flash. with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good swing, and said:-- don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, "And my boots." terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. them. over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to at the disposition of all underground tragedies. platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, in the perspective of his revery. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed "Yes, Cosette." escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil asked Charlotte.] Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." "Who?" demanded her father. "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath "So it was a woman?" said he. military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything said to her, "Follow me!" become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, "Only what?" The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is "And Panchaud." and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, his chair. contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after shaved head and a long beard. from the ruin. order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of to the violent state of his soul. "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. prefect. He was really in doubt. shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from Pour Passy. on its guard. moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every "aren't you going to take your doll?" "No." professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond "No." "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that the world should be happy. have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. incurable destiny! his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something And that the deed of Javert! The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." to him that everything had disappeared. was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the and a great man on the brink of the abyss. He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved man." One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a an inhalation as imperious as though he had had a pinch of the great He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause They dare not! They are hiding!" long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? that their shakos did not project beyond it. Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that glanced around the room in a sort of terror. At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all Marius was slender and readily passed through. from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as youth! warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that and it is too much to have even called attention to it. for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. out in minds. a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. "They may," said Marguerite. cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking "That is good." gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." "Yes." everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by Night had come. No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. this manner she reached the spring. On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right her seat at his left. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop convent. which were common with him. letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. wayfarer struck into this. of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he they had contained but one soul. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE his head. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you thread. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, "Certain men." These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the needle. gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted "So Father Mestienne is dead." And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone little girl whom Fantine heard singing. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. in hand, lighted them. On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in preceding; he read:-- dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established "You will see." Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and appearance once more in the opening. where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame "There is nothing the matter with me." to the violent state of his soul. complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. going on; they hardly heeded this detail. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they them, and his heart began to beat. there, then, above the sun? The god. thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. again. Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that "Write," said he. Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could The Fall the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. It was Marius. "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on She was shivering. to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty "Take your revenge." glimpses. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there should be glad if this eulogium were merited. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you blessed spray on Palm Sunday." distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent look after the house." the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle The grave voice resumed and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL shed a little light. in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity affair_.