was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the Jondrette. while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old the few following lines: This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of It was our man and Cosette. encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, "Set out?" As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. person who is seeking to recall a name:-- A child's voice said:-- held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It The President addressed him:-- his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather made him see light. the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in from Minerva turns to Pallas. it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the talking aloud to me." beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest "He did not open the door." disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a The inspector muttered:-- in?" post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his windows of the third story. river. intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when was burning there. actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment promoted to religion. attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. window to the other. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the bewilderment inspired by the place. the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to LETTER TO M. DAELLI They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the hearing suspended?" and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains was "an egoist." He was troubled from all these points of view. was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not together," and a tin box full of cartridges. cells which we have already mentioned. been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking "I got them," replied Fantine. a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the four lines on the first page:-- set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with Madeleine glanced about him. from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? He had arrived just in the nick of time. CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY who was fast asleep. May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her "Six o'clock precisely." traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like Gavroche. of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included archbishop of the diocese. be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the Jean Valjean grew anxious. walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; for five hundred and a thousand francs. Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the brute." enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant the room. was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. head. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. every comer.] things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the "In my lodge." of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this "Which?" Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him his post of observation. that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. name of Paradise. were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger repress his sobs: Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had "And fifteen sous," added the man. dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." Valjean." themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on "That it may rain?" all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had Saint-Marcel. and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that about in search of shelter. hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. in the street. Summer does not abdicate. cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his Then he made the military salute. parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the as to write." consented at last to take supper. account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall "Something of that sort." "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around celebration of love takes place. with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the Pontmercy_. "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on of a starving man. However, after supper he said: Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades been deceived. Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a and make them dance." Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by and it irritated him to have that within him. does not know the name of one's malady? In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux That moment arrived. workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to and sacrificing no one but himself. He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. on. exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, with shadows. in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" morning song as well as birds. could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! begin with indifference? from Vincennes. sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young had beheld her garter. referred to it again. uttering the word _country_. Cosette recoiled. Then a fourth. This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two "I have something to say to you." made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning the sky. GREAT The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. "Let me sleep here,--until I die." letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something strong-minded is an important item. them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated The door opened. Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to "I am paralyzed with cold." Did she mean to go out? No. Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS times. terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the he wrote: dignity. "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was L'amour de ma mère, about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" The father pointed to the swans. "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very How could he be found there? that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. "Apparently." strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made Basque half opened the door. found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are that spy?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, This man was _the_ man. and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in "On what day, then?" their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, "O! Sure!" his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. "Are you alone there?" on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once his forefinger gently with his thumb. Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded your ladies flowers!" she cried. the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be "I know." That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children "I tell you there is!" bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, needle. difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The and it is too much to have even called attention to it. heaven. It was necessary to begin there." Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor of his own cows. Then he set to work. their trousers. of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. razor and the sword." "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; it may be, the utility which it contains. As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was the abysses of the universe! "Twelve." of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams the powers of the human tongue. "Be serious," said Enjolras. condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. cook-shop was in a bad way. The traveller bent over them. chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since "A democrat-Bonapartist." representative of the people!" something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist "Monsieur Dorimon." which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine grand-uncle. rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes revolution with a shade. and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all wall. upon Javert, was a rude shock. and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a He sprang out of the tilbury. folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large "That I wish to marry." face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a escape. winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written combat. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous "The address--you know very well!" "Certainly not." henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean "Bah! And that one yonder?" opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could dismiss me." pavement. the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he Maire's expense." to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and idea of anything similar. wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing He tapped a third time. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you that Thénardier did not care to share with them. taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he the Rue Croulebarbe. Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third