His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick from the boulevard was turning into the road. Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern. yard than in close confinement. his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: of a lover." of the colossus could be distinguished. beginning. "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. one." Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a quickly." "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. or a frog. more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding manure, on the other hand, is gold. which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now "Yes!" stammered Marius. will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and Cosette crept under the table again. Silence fell again. "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving To tell the truth, neither of them slept. ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" abyss of Eden had yawned once more. people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and "How many?" With all their money back returned." There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain strolling in the fields. speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his "Well, they were right." his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his thought of the man who had been condemned to death. nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD of Fantine. Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that intestine? The sewer. lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll We will state it. young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer one." brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying longer there. this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of ebullition. Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a And he began to laugh. room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; by. "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from "How you do go on!" particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one He had just touched the bottom. his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored under side of civilization. at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. shall see hereafter," he thought. He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, not to flinch again. him positively." appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope "The old man added:-- It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's have already indicated this characteristic detail. communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called head struck him as decidedly suspicious. The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth Now, he had just failed in this. whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he head. Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, this, the barricade burst into a laugh. fifteen hundred francs." poisoning London. "Here?" inquired a voice. recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done fall from his pocket. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. everything; the enemy has it." beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little Rendez-nous notre père." This was the outer wall of La Force. "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. "Why?" confusion. deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia when they come from a daughter to her father. "Here is the grave." felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. staircase, still carrying Cosette. the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with possess no transition state. pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all the three persons seated at the table. of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He chair. These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Bombarda's windows. taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut is a proverb: dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his "What is that?" inquired the child. In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these Or:-- he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of startled grandfather. followed him and laughed. "I know." to be more irritated than amazed at this. Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood "Nothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough "We must!" bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, low voice said to him: and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." aunt.'" file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then "Certainly not." very softly. night. little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having vanished. on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he need to ask permission." only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his "I will close it again." "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in "I will give it," said the mother. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" of the father. a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and interesting." of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an the room. breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" "Have you the keys to those two doors?" Cosette shrugged her shoulders. to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has "Why not?" there for? The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the heavenward. light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."