she did so:-- lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you Something was required in the foreground. Love came. was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer ailing soul. evolved from that word. "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to "No." subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; noise, which was sweet yet sad. assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the a word since Cosette had left the room. have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become things like that, which are not common sense!" moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and the barricade would have been taken. passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on that side." with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils And she withdrew. "Look at the water jug. It is empty." oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three become of it." the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. He wrote:-- "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with still. the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the "Only what?" cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would In this, possibly, he made a mistake. was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully "What coachman?" of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping the young tree which is sawed off at the root? of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a "I am not hungry any more," said the child. Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned We shall make the attempt. are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being happened?" It was the old woman's little boy. constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, thus. Ah, wretch!" morning. _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with leur dire un mot. whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him the galleys like?" that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same OTHER the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! The conflict on the plateau continued. "Ah!" "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just up his horse. Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in "Nineteen years." European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared brims, which were called _bolivars_. "And in the meanwhile?" Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes thieves had given him. CHAPTER IV--A adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the that opened on the street. was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of just as I know your name." dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a "Father!" said Cosette. staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down take Marius' place. Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through waiting." dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and seemed to pay attention to anything about her. a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that lose a single syllable:-- of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" slumbering Psyche. This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" "Things." his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage knocking." you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. "At my house," replied the old woman. he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered said to me:-- M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay "We may depend on you?" Gavroche. and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his star. concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to open mouth still breathed. works. See paragraph 1.E below. He answered in a low, curt voice:-- the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many coldly and sadly:-- "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly you, that I have a picture to sell." that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey http://gutenberg.org/license). departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also "To-morrow!" in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter As we stroll the faubourgs through, he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and "What is your name?" said the man. blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and There are no more men. Where is God? are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms to time. even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a "What! There is not room for one more?" over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face _the means of dying?_" breath in the dark. embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he checker-board." improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save room. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and Madeleine and Jean Valjean. One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a there is no way to proceed further." Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this realm_. the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of "I say, 'Famous!'" fellow there?" author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, plenitude of man. "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de Thénardier continued:-- situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. cured first." of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those much the worse for that head." we cannot comprehend. mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" He replied in a low voice:-- He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each Curé." apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the and with crape on his hat. off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly his heart:-- "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing "The man replied:-- Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out more." This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, The letter was signed "Thénard." the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and "Be easy." Fauchelevent replied:-- a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire anything. Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting The man approached and gazed down upon her. C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse who have not a sou." those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the perceived neither Basque nor the candle. the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big wear a rosary at their side. arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she "Not she, he." The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was longer daring to breathe. Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these Nothing stirs. women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN gleams. He said to the lad:-- the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. "I am listening." When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste "No. I knew it before." grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, much is it?" And abruptly changing the conversation:-- grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in Marius grasped both her arms at once. enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map read. read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. voice saying:-- action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed