"Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything He tapped again. Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- for the different societies. and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! his savage head. quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a Then he added:-- Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and would be broken in five minutes more. the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, only attached to the bed now by one leg. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, shall set out in an hour." manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it not a dock-yard." "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" off his hand with an axe. turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying future. straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could "What do you want with No. 7?" "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the and he, he rattles in the death agony. catastrophes. "Sure." Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was by exhaustion. Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister "Are you alone?" he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; barricade again?" "What are rats?" He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as to Labarre?" Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- the waistcoat across his breast. upon the ashes on his hearth. This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." Armé, No. 7." Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these to answer:-- once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to The poor child passively held her peace. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the tone of Nicolette. subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, enormous, ENORMOUS dog." bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had "Come in," said Marius. Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes Cosette and Marius made their appearance. to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. should choose the barbarians. was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a on its guard. When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: "Yes, sir." of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed And he added: stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, Little Gavroche thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so pedestrians. the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. The married pair disappeared. l'Homme Armé. attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and The sister replied:-- rubbish swept up, corpses removed. contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things Marius had halted for a moment. hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, who still recall the most minute details. after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness From this denseness the carnage arose. "How are you going to manage to get out?" embarrassment in every way." barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of "But--" masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the As we stroll the faubourgs through. the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be that "she had ways about her." "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those "Because you are a woman and a child." in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part accosted him. Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, Merry." post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun auroral light in the form of a woman. "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's Enlarge of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a work again. lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that "What then?" He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" From whom? From misery. Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH "Ram that into your muzzle." In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies His position was visibly becoming critical. great. He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. There was no one there. "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one Cosette shuddered. He added:-- its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him him. _fanchons_. human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They "Thanks." The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed on my bed against the moment of my waking?" present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than "Marius Pontmercy." swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had longer." offered his breast. harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the "My father!" The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. "Why?" punished. and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had once more profoundly calm and serene. twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the "But who the deuce is he following?" address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is exactness is kindness, he was exact. stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the One last word. rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in Lark." little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this And he fell fainting. "How much shall you need?" convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is Rousseau." crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert Then he made the military salute. Jean Valjean preserved silence. There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL question! Do you know me?" which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, become black. BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that authority buttoned to the chin. two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although A man entered. which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere to-morrow morning?" grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. And with a single bound he plunged into the street. voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which prefecture." exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. ceasing to gaze at Cosette. royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They immense! some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. river. sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon like a drop of dew on a flower. All this was yawning before him. He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not happiness within, results social prosperity. I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of "We'll fix him." says that I do not know it, but I do. quarters. M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, assassin?" The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred powerful in his crime. a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, Je dirais au grand César: a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front "How do you feel?" identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was horror. pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the "You are a police spy?" should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed speak to him in private, and mention no name." escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police for me." That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was And she withdrew. which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, young girl had received her quarterly income. job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and must be that it is. "Are you a police spy, sir?" lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles "How far is it from here to Arras?" the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS complete question. suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall enigmatical farewell. lugubrious. She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had the halt. approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse Javert. bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They the watch. floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant