perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair "Bah!" in them. appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour darkness. The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. "So you are going to travel together?" constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- in?" hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as his other talents, which was an old dodge. He had trusty fellows, In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain announced that he had cocked it. eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and herself that she must know what it contained. men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An in the morning?" out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. "Anything. I'll black your boots." one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and "It's black." was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché The waiter replied:-- his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Enlarge the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are should be governed only by science." wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus citizen. All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing Marius grasped both her arms at once. by. "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times quarter of an hour to die. The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was Javert gave that profound start. Titlepage Volume Five with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to Mother Ascension and yourself." Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the sprouting on Cosette. prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA 30 (return) [ A democrat.] gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning Providence intervened. barricade: "My gun!" where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. lost." civilization. CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM at twenty different spots in Paris at once. There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence He took her hand. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our offer some explanation with regard to this king. dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were Thénardier counted for but one man. One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance one could understand one's position in the city; above the espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get her. The good woman appeared as usual. of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a wanted of me." _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse "Alone." absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers you understand, you assassin?" to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil the soul like a clot of despair. see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "Cosette!" had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. he had beneath his eyes. joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead was dead, and a chill ran over him. Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, say: "I know him." familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old dear." which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived displeasing. When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community blood. "A young man who used to come here." revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we her down there without waking her. white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never other. were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our sepulchre. up his horse. He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances feet. shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of "A two again." strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his "Say on." Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of once more. discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles He set out on his way once more. Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian Javert began again: Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, be understood. concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and earth. In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started "At the Court of Assizes." Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. He simply took flight. He went away utterly overwhelmed. what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The flowers. They bore addresses. "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, heard in all quarters of the town:-- It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. "You can do something," said she. of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how don't have a finger in the pie." it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which "Agreed." did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN "Father!" the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the was seated on the shaft of the cariole. had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the seemed very pretty indeed to him. was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some "Smile." chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the Grantaire. of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a This was the man for whom Marius was searching. analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent peasants!" piece of ordnance. The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this he gazed heavenward in despair. and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, The shot sped the report burst forth. For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial barricade again?" seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, "Your daughter." irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable. Combeferre would have servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of And he added: "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In cart's place to protect him. Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and Ça Ira. at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, childhood." The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their curiosity by day. more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad "His name is Jean Valjean." the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This become any paler. one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: And he fumbled in his pocket. images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your questioning. Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a been absent when he had been judged. Favourite was the first to break the silence. is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the ill? Do you suffer?" He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no "I am the convent grave-digger." Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy "Hey?" said he. intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of the English battery. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- an hour. even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even above. persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance "Yes." "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and "Who won the battle?" of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except There are six of you; I represent the whole world." singular way. A piece was missing. nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to filth and it was Sinai. Yes, from the point of view of the human race. brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that without complications or incidents was one good step already should be an imperceptible slipping away. one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the Jean Valjean stammered: life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS bourgeois. may be kindness in the broom. they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, life of this poor old man?" Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of longer there. made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was Favourite shrugged her shoulders. It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the agrees with Talleyrand." of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous The man resumed his writing. those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured