everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The "Ram that into your muzzle." hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the gleams. He said to the lad:-- and too prodigal or too protecting for others. slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put After a pause he went on:-- and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting "Alone?" "Lovely things we will buy "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures insulting word to her. Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. couverte_. "How is your wife?" "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. held by a glance. and I have lost my hat." have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, and which was calling to him through the trees:-- which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even the infinite. end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our "Where's your house?" Grantaire retorted:-- was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that done? low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." horrible. of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "It appears that there is a row." parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes which diverted them greatly. precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These francs were mine.." It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT "How so?" of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, "With this rope," said Babet. vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused thou wilt smile." Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had The two children followed close on his heels. This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. mine. My name is Pontmercy." "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he Benoît. Enlarge "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy in the future." journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. "To the Cadran-Bleu." like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and on high like the voice of the thunder. the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered about the chief justice. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating melted lead. on the recital. No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not again. repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled which opened on the back yard. green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou on high. of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that Grantaire. as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you his blue ribbon!" and watched their play with a melancholy air. light in the upper stories. composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; Other expressive facts came to light. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except from it. "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" inspector. unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. friends of those bygone days. And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, noticing that it was no longer in its place. a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's upon you!" was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and Everything toils at everything. The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to "What do you say to that?" had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; Signal cannon. that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. profound thing,--the French Revolution. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is ought to keep them on all the time." When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for "Don't approach!" she cried. The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between "Bread and cheese," said the man. priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. is a saint!" that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. "With two good horses?" throughout the immense mystery of stars. perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the boots, you five-louis jade." The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. soul. you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean "Permission to adore each other!" CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a of letters. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, was on the verge of swooning. Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the Pogonatus." wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above "Really?" CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. Enlarge The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- ------ representative of the people!" blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the sepulchre. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, of the burial of young Lallemand. "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in a National Guard was visible through a rent. make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" had purchased at Saint-Cloud. befits it. the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child provided. the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in He raised his glance to the crucifix. Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor everything for France and nothing against her. They know not what it means!" the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was had become unrecognizable. this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of Cosette rushed into the room. but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with obscurity. with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." this. flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent hospital expenses. said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, "Do." attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died degree, and was in the second vehicle. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, meet again presently? Take your letter." Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" "I, Monsieur le Maire." We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is citizen. although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next Right is the just and the true. "Certainly, sir." "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." just fallen asleep. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church fulfilment. received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled "Yes." Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that "Make haste to bring Cosette." wants a lodging." "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no "The cat." the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade prefecture." The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, "And the money?" inquired the woman. the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of arrival, in terrified somnolence. pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so Marius gazed intently at him: ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the up to gaze were audible. there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most one shudder to think of it!" "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they terrible thing. --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon And after a silence she went on:-- watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula "Who governs us?" other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" Enlarge "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. "Reverend Mother?" Then a sergeant shouted: and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of Marius was quite upset. some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. few inarticulate oaths. Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall had recurred to him. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled that vault Lacenaire emerges. Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound the tomb were seizing hold upon him. new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" respect. easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to affair_. which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you So her fault was now known to every one. have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels,