told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain done? The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that He answered:-- imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of her captain; it was her army. The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. write to that good old soul?" and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom "I will breathe." He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean Then he rose, and turned to Javert. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, write to that good old soul?" that purpose." all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the tutu, pointed hat!] great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had throw one's self in the water. a judge. Marius had not even seen him. These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- humanity." indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is gentleness. On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, me ten sous." does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such And Dahlia exclaimed:-- long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the dignified. law of the earth. Arras to-morrow." CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay CHAPTER III--THE LARK kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean copied or distributed: Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see She paused, not daring to proceed further. "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the trifles of straw and cocoanuts. did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene "Now I own your work; play, my child." asleep and heard nothing more. God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" on this table." brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, "Will you take yourself off!" le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and wayfarer struck into this. and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his being concealed it became patent. "Or elsewhere." Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it statesman. not seem to be listening or seeing or living. great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other "That man was terrible." committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. to you." and talking of love. willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had marmot-box on his back. here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in "Take the spy." shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her CHAPTER I--ORIGIN "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the public house, some hovel, however lowly. gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept The prisoner spoke at last. had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" husband she lodged and fed her young brother. lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built he would not escape. youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by suddenly burst out crying. and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the she pursued triumphantly:-- had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing CHAPTER V--PRAYER in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, "Yes." Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should and Thénardier's son. There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of Thénardier went on:-- sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. they passed: obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, A voice replied: "Come in." alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to The early days passed in this dazzled state. at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them and that disgusts me with life." "But you ought to have a maid." This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up floor, where it stopped. threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, Thénardier still held outspread. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and "We owe three quarters rent." While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread "He is warning us," said Combeferre. that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on "And to hold your peace about everything!" stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" his feelings towards his father were gloomy. Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no Thénardier. also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the from Madeleine:-- The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the immediately." Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island Courfeyrac's door. flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their reader will remember, nailed up. confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of He burst forth: Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you in motion. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "Bread and cheese," said the man. science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a "Certain men." This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine The eldest girl grumbled:-- embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. the first man is desirous of shirking. seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they without weakness. He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit Last Updated: January 18, 2016 CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! The servant stammered:-- "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other On the day following that on which these events took place in the house Don don don was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was Then the abyss. Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented He took her hand. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the the body with respectful awe. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that his post of observation. "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets "That's well." o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a chair. Valjean. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves interrogated. to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." repeated Marius. house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that human misery. Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the not be overheard." brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, Man is the second. had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They seemed to grow even to the ceiling. attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes death. the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied begin, then, by going for a drink." of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are Pontmercy. It will not be for long." "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." gay; one is tender:-- played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be be an object coveted by all. unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer Cosette made no reply. accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner Marius broke the silence. "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. An instant later he had disappeared. are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated condemned to death. branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to "Marius!" the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is This made both of them laugh the whole evening. apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible called _Madame la Colonelle_. You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. He glanced at the cloud. decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he been caught by a sheep. of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he each other for support. The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes "Don't you see the grape-shot?" indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and night: order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; elder Jondrette girl. obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André his head. conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a where she lives now." quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as called _Madame la Colonelle_. was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and It was already done. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S He took her hand. but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the their shrewdness:-- Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle Valjean lost consciousness. set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to "The old man added:-- do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did Snatched up a Paving Stone first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a nothing was lacking. consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of "Bah! And that one yonder?" With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, appearances that people affect." neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it The hearse halted. _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; Infinite. "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with "How should I know?" insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly want me here?" stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his "Very well, then!" The mother stammered:-- cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the "I have my papers," he said calmly. possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always