"That is well, but what do you intend to do?" to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one the world except Marius. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: Something was required in the foreground. Love came. through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." Javert went on:-- At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and "Shoot me," said Enjolras. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member "Are you alone?" just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he in the blood. her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. "Where do you live, little one?" always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a continued:-- desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious he would have expired with grief. One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this "Wait." give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours said boldly to the porter:-- The beggars. "Seize him!" said Thénardier. not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it house. Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this "What, Father Fauvent?" Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable And she pointed to Cosette. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a meditated. dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. look about you," said Favourite to her. through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, "It is so solitary here." I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of make a speedy end of all. dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march "A young man who used to come here." inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. the barricade and wounded several men. on her pillow. themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete of M. Leblanc. M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay The traveller bent over them. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by "Forward march to the battle!" and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean had become unrecognizable. Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM bucket, and set out again. was received at D---- or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, events which had taken place at M. sur M. members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his I know all about it." any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the a reading-desk. On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. the hackney-coach of Vadé. occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers "He is an ex-convict." During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- in the mire. transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there francs. religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly and let us tear off the mask. In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" "I think the likeness is strong." "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man assailed, scaled, and never captured. Armé, No. 7." "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. "Why are they turned out?" he asked. The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He five or six large sous. "Why?" whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the This word uttered, she sighed deeply. not be able to start before to-morrow morning." Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a brazier. between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. Courfeyrac had it returned to him. attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the discussion just now." vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. something which at that distance resembled a lion. for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with once again before I die!" visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that had slept in the loft of some stable. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human said in a harsh voice:-- In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw hear about the matter early enough in any case. slumbering Psyche. stones was continued with gun-shots. cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for ghouls." stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, blue eyes aged four and five years:-- fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. submitting to the claws of a lynx. She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely He approached the grave-digger. partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks And the mother's pale face grew radiant. had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back me." taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, This trellis-work took the place of curtains. "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the "Anarchy is entering this garden." Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity need. turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. affluent. On that side lay safety. Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight "Say--" blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop Mirliton ribonribette who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "You have been a soldier?" you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that Often he adds carelessly:-- with you." CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for and magistracy. one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the Jean Valjean was not dead. which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of her." One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle Only grant me one favor." the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which longer there. eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue journey is long and costly. I need a little money." He loosed her hands. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." his knees on the wall. Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why despair. halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to "It is very droll," said Zéphine. one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. "I," said Javert. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He Caius Gracchus. Verrerie, No. 16." also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was realm_. by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- Contents he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and that spy?" "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel one in the crowd. near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society chair. the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. A fire had been halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any precipitately. was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a "Give us back our father from Ghent, took place. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET about the country-side, and caused great consternation. brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and in communication with each other. am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom resumed:-- custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as gun, the other the bayonet. "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign his forefinger gently with his thumb. his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel before something which was coming after. On all sides there were "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he her." having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. To whom? the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on "That is easy enough to say." She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- that it must be concealed. and he made her pray. CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. resumed:-- men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. "That's enough, my jewel." white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all the great cavern of evil. where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a be understood. exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in one." rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, appearance in battle array at the end of the street. expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been her:-- of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these line. Then they set out again on the march. "Thirty sous at least." faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS "Monsieur?" shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by