should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old "Father!" was about to fall. Then he shuddered. when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like "One." Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After This noise made Valjean turn round. vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without The carter was a German and did not understand him. "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, "All! All!" key. Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would young lady." meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and with me?" Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very of the air, like trees and stones. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal romanticism. to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, noise, which was sweet yet sad. their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that Not a man in the group stirred. the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors "You have not given me anything." presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city on the horizon. ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were all sorts of dark edifices. Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she of man, love. that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." "Where is it going then?" For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT MUNICIPAL POLICE "Here is the grave." gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered restrained. "In the first place, it's not in that direction." handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running render a service to the one whom he loved. He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is "Hey?" said he. CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a The doctor dismissed her. himself. humble soul loved, and that was all. pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, and pitiless shame. even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did The traveller saw nothing of all this. my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two Enjolras: "What fine marble!" and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, in a loud voice:-- head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." shouted:-- fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant brave men. in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also and cabriolets as desired." At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in and shouting:-- as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed the trees, were resplendent. She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible barricade, and...." each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had "That was what I said to myself." "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my "Pardi!" contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted paroxysms of joy. privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which Gavroche's lodging. exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us The cart was free. advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the CHAPTER I the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on hands; she could hardly lift the pail. been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and cudgel, which was lying on the ground. more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find "Yes," said Marius. are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in two brats rendered some shock necessary. something crushing:-- Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the class-room through which he was passing. from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He I am going." formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place say." "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to condemned to death. possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to children." stage-manager of such conversations. guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- had been executed. Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person "And to him also." The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. by the same hand. letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack "Heavy?" That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and Tocsin. "Behold the great martyr." December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the id="linknoteref-65">65 the word--robbed. they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two revery. great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These grumbled:-- arrive will have the best places." tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! who have not a sou." great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having calmly:-- Jean Valjean. was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not "Yes," replied the thin man. That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night "What is the meaning of this?" that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, telescope. sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, to answer:-- than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the laid him low on the pavement. torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I surnames, the Saint and the Lame." of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. thousand." Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that Jean Valjean had not another word to say. father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'