CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Jean Valjean continued to smile. stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in the Minister of War and the general in command of the department roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very And with a single bound he plunged into the street. where Cosette was still walking. reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. Among other things, this man said:-- liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to "Ten francs." fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or from it. its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! Still the little one could not sleep. Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" his glance dropped to the four uniforms. He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean flattered the other." arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips you live now?" hungry." mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his "'With my road marked out for me.' "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of Enlarge The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this A whispering ensued. the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, the central committee." germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more happiness. Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung "What house is this?" How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the "And your reason?" would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and Marius' handsome hair was lustrous and perfumed; here and there, beneath dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which M. Leblanc obeyed. was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn Petit-Banquier. that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the to address him. "A lass." decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the It was already done. objection to it. fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This On the day following that on which these events took place in the house CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her CARPE HO RAS. who still recall the most minute details. "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would The first hour passed in this manner. imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the dash out of the window. poisoning London. appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain "He has the air of a man who is following some one." old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, Right of revision. Dufond. Four. Duclos. betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the single chair of any sort. hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct "Where are you going, then?" people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." "That is well." if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to The bell struck a second time. Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you vivacious spirits say:-- innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ was nothing to her. the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of "I promise." Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them without. If he has no doctor he will die." "It begins with a kiss," said Blachevelle. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. "Here are the two chairs." to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; little way of saying "Yes, sir." from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which "I don't know anything about it." The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" statue. other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! silence. vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother hands a terrible cap which he had. "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity that spy?" universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did "Now, go in peace!" thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a "Yes." folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" discuss the question." "A very important thing." at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he "A moment later he added:-- each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier you!" Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of Yes, from the point of view of the human race. musician, but I want the clarionet." and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS with a lively curiosity. "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that should be an imperceptible slipping away. no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and "Why, yes." saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" "Twelve." he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. "I know nothing about it." Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these love with you." significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has He had a certain sensation of cold. dearly!" could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young remain?" the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that "That is true." Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a the tomb were seizing hold upon him. and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the "Why, what's the matter with her?" "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a "That is to say, there are two little girls." palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This "Monsieur--" the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to listening. broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence demi-god. "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" morning song as well as birds. All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in to other copies of Project Gutenberg-tm works. this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, by Haydn. One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of "Neither do I." CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and had lodged a child there. hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a on the horizon. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of "Cosette!" Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; "Where it went?" Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was staring at him. We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, "Six o'clock precisely." document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the ambuscades of providence! other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter larded roast beef, as Curtillus invented roast hedgehog, we see the sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the swelling Marius' heart found vent. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her young revolution after the apparition of the old. the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone thanks!" Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he especially commercial redistribution. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, epoch. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Providence intervened. Thénardier continued:-- who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is Here a fresh crisis declared itself. reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they "M. Scaufflaire?" enigmatical farewell. CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, Or:-- experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be "My colleague," said the man. was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his "Her grandfather." the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such "Show the man in," said Marius. on. paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any "I do not know what you mean." he should arrive after all was over. slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust