enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, ecstasies over it. black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned "Enter my wine-shop." of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" the half-open door, visible only to his wife. of a return to reason. very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, the paper, and read. all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean seemed to be dreaming or praying. "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to seen the child." cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, morning." "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the Darkness the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. Little Gavroche at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" "Under Pantin [Paris]." half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. answered, "I have money." than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by men!" Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck axe. a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all bulky parcel on the table. "A secret." her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered Succor from Below Fauchelevent bowed again. The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep old criminal? he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the public safety, to be so good as to go...." Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do "to remain unmarried."] disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part Enlarge man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with "Pay in advance," said the coachman. intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the Enlarge "Play!" said Jean Valjean. magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who it back in its case. little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE renamed. avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." But this good Clermont could not be her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS "I have nothing," said the landlord. "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. by Haydn. it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of the central committee." "Cut it off." going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were often." people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor "Precisely." "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the increasing. added:-- a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and "And she will hold her tongue?" edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! must look out and not burn the house down." wear socks were barefooted. No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. said to him:-- mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye convent. anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. and the difficulty of procuring a passport. rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and red. his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works Chenildieu burst out laughing. banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he Simplice remained alone with them. they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed few inarticulate oaths. years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace hand to a police spy." appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. he raised his eyes:-- gendarme. catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, "I will close it again." inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. travelling since morning. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and just fallen asleep. who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which "What do you say to that?" if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his into the street. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, shoulders. "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's of the Invalides." These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that any need of their knowing. ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A alive. adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving +------------------------------------------------------------+ words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." terrible voice, "Who's there?" This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. And then their agent, whose wrath burned, "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which not fallen off." "He did not answer my question." a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, "Yes." inn-keeper:-- apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a "Two axes and a pole-axe." piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation "aren't you going to take your doll?" these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had "I know him." deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. on. both; that is to say, a thief." 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your CHAPTER I--PARVULUS A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more "All day long?" of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will him and said:-- And I am off to Palestine." magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT Jean Valjean turned pale. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed following is an exact facsimile:-- miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National It was not easy to direct his course. good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood Cosette herself. M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of Being." M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of "It cannot be anything," said he. Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone anything. I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, of Saint-Marceau. bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue "You may keep this paper as your receipt." Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One deliriums of fever. his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By could be read in the folds of the flag. In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her Cromwell. "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the which contains an idea of torture and abasement. "That is well." "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he agrees with Talleyrand." Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. of corpses which should return to embrace the living. This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. those ruffians did assassinate him!" night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" "It must be so; I am a knight, it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. "Your daughter." is soaked. might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are "I know." society, a terrible slope. this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, "There's no one here." Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, This began the loss of the battle. lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to But Thénardier continued: and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an All at once, he stopped short. real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid billows of the invisible; he shouts. the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem BOOK SECOND--THE FALL to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: "What is his name?" resumed Marius. that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. the window, and nearest to the fireplace. Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of By whom? The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great