passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert And he added with dignity:-- And her mother, no doubt, alas! CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world not be able to start before to-morrow morning." His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my http://www.gutenberg.org trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is Montfermeil?" conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service and he condemned it also. He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; Then a sergeant shouted: Cosette had emerged from under the table. that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood self-sacrifice be exacted? drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and Miralabi suslababo same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? man pass. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the bars. "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed slangs and to speak none of them. from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. become more and more patriotic for humanity. CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. hand--his whole fortune, probably. This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a As we stroll the faubourgs through. by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. _"Amen." _ The Fall "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, length she cried:-- M. Gillenormand went on: summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair "I get down here," said the man. murmuring, "Mercy!" CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the the wine-shop noticed it. read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove been watered, it must be." If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its "As rich as I am." up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. female Thénardier. employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, displace the bar and slip into the garden. the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for dear." him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all bed. his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. the grand crisis, the grand test. situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- said. liberalism. recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, but you have degenerated this morning." God." "A spare wheel?" herself that she must know what it contained. CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with CHAPTER I--PARVULUS in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve "She will not turn round." connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin And he snuffed out his tiny light. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- marshes. had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the of a hated individual. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the his toes projected were visible. A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated him, she said:-- "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, outburst of inward laughter. dignity. is addressing me on the point of going mad?" As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the carved, Chinese ivory handle of a parasol, and her silken shoe outlined away with me." The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. understand any of the peals?" As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT accompaniment. After a pause, Gavroche added:-- wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] happy? I stand outside of life, sir." of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; He inquired:-- a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next heavy. the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the replied, with assurance:-- ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity "Father, are they still men?" "You saved my life," said the man. a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to Often he adds carelessly:-- eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They "There is only one thing left to do." preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist gnaw your heart this evening!'" lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the "You?" was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had and exclaimed:-- violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of congealed state:-- off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: very poor young man who was called M. Marius. who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, one on the floor was the colonel. and to venture on at least one question. Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A was charged. Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden Enlarge Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell cook-shop was in a bad way. miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an It was our man and Cosette. Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. unhappy woman shuddered. As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he was prowling about in their neighborhood. Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass sorrow cannot curve. comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's that it must be concealed. the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was now it reappeared. in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The Jean Valjean began again:-- large. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH "Yes." stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the traitor in order to succor it.27 apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. crying:-- I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled "Mistress what?" In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in grape-shot was a conflagration. in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made infirmary. "No, sir; it is Christmas." the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are "How right I was not to believe in that story about the lancer!" said an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand "So you are sure that he will come?" Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" thus gained, in fact. have done well." Enlarge And the two children followed him as they would have followed an Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair _you_ to Éponine. coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer few minutes. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, She went on:-- great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought hither?" the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- hour." path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, Genflot, man of letters. shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; PATER NOSTER At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so Valjean alighted. He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the "At my house." an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was The prioress stared at him. of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will of his day. recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool Enlarge on the nail!" her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women it's all the same to me, come on!" In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that embarrassment in every way." mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose muttered: CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S "Not even of you, father!" We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an rare man. fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their he added: "Little fellow yourself." concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to Jean Valjean approached. organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they receive me." Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious "Dost thou know their address?" attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. And she presented her other cheek. glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode out of this." the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, All this was yawning before him. may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a Enlarge Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there at night. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme Thénardier took the paper and read:-- kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, These flowers were his occupation. come to that.