of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was produced a gentle, monotonous noise. These things are charming when one Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been "Who?" said Jean Valjean. Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he "Four points." to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the you." their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean "How is that poor woman?" Let us drink." the thoughtful man. finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. Chenildieu burst out laughing. "My horse has not been watered." All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community and he condemned it also. was speaking aloud. name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in anything to eat?" CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. thousand francs, bully that you are!" to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa "There's going to be a row!" slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful hear about the matter early enough in any case. politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then was changing its aspect every moment. great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" past a delightful garret. invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after trap; the barricade did not reply. satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, neighborhood. which contains an idea of torture and abasement. cemetery." of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the country, his paradise. Cosette." "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" poultry.] will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and "That Argenteuil wine." guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they He went on:-- the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is coldly and sadly:-- forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, voice saying:-- long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without invariably found them there. they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid "That is understood." "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the dog who finds his master again. At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the hands were a little abraded. hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. "Take it," said she. his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I insist. Javert entered. giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which shoulders. there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their jack-screw. presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we "Take a look at that man!" Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself a bell. He rang. inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify you!" his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, His revery gradually became terrible. generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was Jean Valjean continued: imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a hangs over it. evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: had Javert's pistols with him. grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable encountered something strange. quarter. "By the hour?" In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed Progress! man." purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." "It must be closed again." you and to tell it to you. Thénard." Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a porch, and entered the courtyard. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against "What child?" musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the The rag-picker cried:-- individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, black night. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi longer." undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly energetic and resolute push. times. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their That made three. The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. A kiss, and that was all. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette Marius took the letter. Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère One last word. The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than She shook her head and added:-- of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing CHAPTER II--MARIUS It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert "One moment, if you please." Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my "Le roi Coupdesabot is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that who was fast asleep. it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, The wicket opened. awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and "The devil, no." show-window had suddenly been fractured. Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round which was particularly dangerous. to me,"_ replied the Bishop. coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what they are not visible and palpable. of hell into another. Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?