reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a "The cowards!" drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only marriage. Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal Trappe replies to Horace. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a again. which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found "No." "Something must be lowered into it." with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." "I." was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in empty coffin. of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very inquiring for the mayor. Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are the universe wills, therefore it has a God. arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that And after a silence she went on:-- nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell placed on the table. Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, the profundity of his bow. id="linknoteref-63">63 there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in to have been recently turned up. In vain. and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. without weakness. her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE "Yes." Gans. miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, had been a success during the something more than two years which he had and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at "Cosette." called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace "My colleague," said the man. day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of He went on:-- At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides And they burst out laughing. A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, "Enjolras!" "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they Marius was quite upset. sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This was told to Jean Valjean. Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head about to put. "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since This is the way things went:-- des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes "I am paralyzed with cold." And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of poet. WAR overtake the other. one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost amphora. Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" impressions. Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make himself to drop into his chair. the Court and allotted the lodgings.] and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop "Good day, Babet!" marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of catastrophes. him:-- dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer It was here that Jean Valjean stood. recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without He went on:-- little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a M. Leblanc took the pen. Waterloo protects you." doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of him from his lethargy. is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, strangers had made their way into it. "You are a fool." outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one Enlarge or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" And the bystanders laughed. not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. "Me! me! me!" worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when regain the steps. their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each barricade, all breathless, saying:-- vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see The conflict on the plateau continued. youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by Thénardier replied:-- others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold Fauchelevent repeated:-- man. mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." We salute the man who kneels. All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, accompaniment. whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is upon you!" The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where vaguely, and said:-- is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From Delorme Alley. "What cabriolet?" I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." "The philanthropist?" there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- all the hoops are visible." staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears "On what day, then?" "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it They were in the open air! The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of people call Monseigneur Welcome?" The wicket closed again. to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. "Really! You will take her away?" She tried to smile once more and expired. indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that "Yes." He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of have passed by. What were they? Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. In this, possibly, he made a mistake. The youngest, one. war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the which opened on the back yard. fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. said in a harsh voice:-- From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot "I." M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able "Go in, nevertheless." A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is "She sulks at me with cruel patience." remember. shouted to him:-- to me!" keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell contemplating the slumber of the just. The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure "She is going on three." mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much had a round hat. of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and surprise:-- window. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches door. It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of Fauchelevent replied:-- recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, singular way. A piece was missing. causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has He paused. CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with the tap-room. direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had CHAPTER III--THE LARK Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its sacred to him; he smoked. "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself compassion for the old man. to dwell?" fortify him in his resolution. navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, collar of his coat. He said:-- persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. "I leave this very evening, aunt." One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called near, with melancholy undulations. bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and the door. mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 other Fauvent_. worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, and weeds, and died. lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of cries. projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending impressions. stomach paralyzes the heart. _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) "Why, what's the matter with her?" around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, accompanied these words. around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He "Do you see that old cove?" rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. the paper, and read. seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful "Will he return this evening?" sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am straw. "I ask you whether you will go?" nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was like a drop of dew on a flower. haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for ----- leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made the street like so many pockets of thieves. which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death."