gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much attitude, and became motionless once more. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in does not know the name of one's malady? I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I altogether. He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," He started to his feet. "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the a curve on the ground.] hands were a little abraded. was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the "She died at daybreak." not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious had a round hat. September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable and saw nothing. In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted said. In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every table: wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." My most respectful complements, poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop And to the man with the cudgel:-- "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" divinely fatal phenomenon. Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many little. thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! to the general of the Lazarists. woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- Force. bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, In this, possibly, he made a mistake. hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags The youngest, one. little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, himself. Then, raising his voice:-- He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him regarded by others. everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him dead corpse. "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. "Here is Cosette's education already provided." useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. "Did you sleep badly?" Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. The mother stammered:-- rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth Javert. this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan on my bed against the moment of my waking?" "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I turned squarely round. and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on that he had actually been guilty of theft. "If you set two men to work?" There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the were forming in his bosom. symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six "Four points." "Long live the Republic!" whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. "But I must have my money." profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- "Are you a good Christian?" great age permitted. greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three had become terrible. The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF id="linknoteref-63">63 Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, there. building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that "Éponine." melts in love, which is its sun. and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either declared itself long before. Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such Enlarge It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify Everything toils at everything. Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was "Yes? '93!" positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical "Yes." Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are in fact, lost. they were making sport of him. her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own "Break whatever you please." reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, "That is evident," said Théodule. in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the He paused. "And how did you return?" Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, "Because I love statesmen." longer." everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. The dandy fled. hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. black once more. halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She confession and inflict the penance aloud. her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, principle, and he tried to reach a balance. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, VICTOR HUGO. unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT M. Leblanc uttered not a word. one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they himself: Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone M. Leblanc uttered not a word. What love commences can be finished by God alone. his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, up his horse. and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon Thus, idleness is the mother. the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the "Have you the keys to those two doors?" indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, very unhappy. What should I do then?" and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the "The proof that God is good is that she is here." Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter does not dress in damask. extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. From these two things combined, the public power without, individual longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He "There is no room." resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It cabriolet?" Monsieur l'Abbé!" great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when passer-by. the portress not to expect him that night. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du He was no longer there. young revolution after the apparition of the old. "Has moved away," replied the porter. matter. He replied:-- Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. "The empty one?" "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, that he had actually been guilty of theft. designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is "A spare wheel?" sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, of stone. "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle was a benefit to the manufacturer. gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it his head that he did not. a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them them. that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down "Monsieur--" determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. now beginning. seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have Javert. At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. women were fond of begging. And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three For the second time, he stopped short. colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He larger with the proud light within them. On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and BAPTISTINE. stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. wall which faced the tavern:-- elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the Then he continued:-- on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible Marius, "and in what condition they are." The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Cosette's rising. a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows celestial forms." He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he enormous, ENORMOUS dog." "Angel!" said Marius. What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, he survived after he was shot. Tin tin tin two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his in it at her ease. his gums. by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can Arras. "Swear one thing to me!" What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain men. boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand abysses as well as evil ones. people call Monseigneur Welcome?" realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. M. Madeleine replied gently:-- There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a "There is no one but me." lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " "Somewhat." distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't ill? Do you suffer?" "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for wait until they are in the street before replying." him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly