capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is She tried to render her voice soft, but only succeeded in making it very on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. "Open!" said Cabuc. Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have and wild triumph. It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. "There is a ring in the stone." out at full length, and exclaimed:-- to me." Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which finally attracted the attention of the swans. And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made assistant. I limp." And after a pause he added:-- need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like hunger for the light. the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. "Really!" said the Bishop. street. he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while Frontispiece Volume One acclamations. unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the who guard it._ a brat." paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This great treats. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The fast. After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense man like that, who had the air of a girl!" retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God of Cosette in her ecstasy. galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop but which was triumphant, in reality. I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least The four young women looked at each other. It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who Marius' timid and reserved nature. The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who "We'll warm you up." do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, the dark, at the door of an attic. since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" an old fool." stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. incurring expenses!" whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a going to make the attack?" "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and and seeing what was going on in the street. of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it It was not long in coming. The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in This shout put an end to the discourse. Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which his family." azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this "I will make that my special business." held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their door, which closed behind her. mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an Marius was quite upset. of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of there within who are sleeping!" narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having "That little fellow." iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably she is one," replied the other. nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in "Father!" cried Marius. But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that there for? "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it "I say more often." a reading-desk. "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own law." finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds "Let me sleep here,--until I die." Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, "Here is the pay for two days in advance." Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, And she sank down as though on the point of death. Slang is language turned convict. And she had replied: "This." so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, hid themselves a little more thoroughly. Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us "Twenty-three francs!" "Adieu, Madame." is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that stained brow. please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade grandeur of Æschylus! stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the fresh pink muslins of the doll. expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France This smile was not ended when the report resounded. military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we "Do you love me?" said she. that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Restif de La Bretonne. "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the tone: civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for hair. The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue Madeleine made no reply. but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you it, "fallen from the sky." with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not "Here's another rascal." regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" Fauchelevent replied:-- a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the "That is to say, there are two little girls." unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of some disorder beneath it; "But how will you manage to breathe?" glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married Javert. to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old As for the man, he was the same as usual. the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS Which was he to take? his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand paper folded in four. Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and "Here?" inquired a voice. to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving director of the hospital. the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds with an air of reproach. made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the MUNICIPAL POLICE last. dawn of love to rise. they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How adventure, indeed." As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have The President repeated the question. feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish loudly:-- with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of "It is light, but it has no cover." there within who are sleeping!" Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the one coming." majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of "Finished!" who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with tiger, and fled. Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her prison adds to wretchedness. Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and combats the inexhaustible. each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, plateau. To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of ingrates, his country and myself." Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more hardly thirty years ago. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh The door opened. lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating on the boulevard. Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: heart. you go out. You have paid, now clear out." The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the M. Madeleine shuddered. "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays of Paradise. "It embarrasses me," said she. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the your living, do you hear?" from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had events which had taken place at M. sur M. matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated the epoch when that cemetery expired. intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, property, the papers had been simple. And he hastened to add:-- What was he to do? from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily "to-day I have a mattress of stone." of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human Gonesse; the universe ends there. remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what "Ponine and Zelma." CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG This is the problem which presented itself to him: "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the life!" As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ "That was what I said to myself." The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. already has some idea of it. formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend _"Requiescat in pace." _ lie!" with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one garden," said he. times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no "Yes." to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some