charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS "You are her father?" same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this "Do you know the chapel?" she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was bourgeois. were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down "Smile." contents himself with the remark:-- belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by for the flies which his dog eats!" remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, possibility of any other itinerary. earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. show-window had suddenly been fractured. It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes man!" "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of earning her living. premeditation, and she was condemned for life." curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He "Father Fauvent?" the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged order. his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. might gaze into the eye of a tiger. young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE This began the loss of the battle. She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, demi-god. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled Marius had retreated gently. and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. The two women pursued their chat. CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are song then so popular:-- the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated new-comers are treated. even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented "Impossible!" apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, with the eyes of one dead. down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also Marius. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the Let us return to the ship _Orion_. "Say--" One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, Mirliton ribonribo. the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" and who say: "No one shall have him!" followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, before him. yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly dictate:-- of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left often talks aloud. became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." "Dismiss the carriage!" human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a AUSTIN CASTILLEJO "See! there is just room." pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. People in the village said:-- aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in do not abandon the people." moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She to others may not be received in law . . ." him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, Sometimes even several of them at a time. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. from infirmity. It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient "I know it." it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. stand in need of us?" behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are with horror. it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had fail to be of use. This trellis-work took the place of curtains. Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and into the street!" sheer fatigue. is the continuation of the last doll. agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state unhappy woman?" recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and infirmary and see Fantine. exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to capable of that." 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." "It was Madame Thénardier." to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. "Yes," replied the mother. At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an women, while Fantine was a good girl. the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of woollen stockings and blankets." stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from "Mother," said the child, "look there!" could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer the three persons seated at the table. stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a and devoted air. rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter "Two or three times." have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had to wear my scar?" unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that drama and delivered on the stage. Valjean. replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the CARPE HO RAS. engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble society, a terrible slope. stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must depths of the thickets. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, "Booby! make her your mistress." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be said:-- wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the archbishop of the diocese. to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last begin, then, by going for a drink." "Take the spy." for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her here to this sketch. He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, Glorieux, a discharged convict. beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and The Thénardier took down the whip. between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. his gun went off in the air. civilization. uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" of the colossus could be distinguished. "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, "Do you know the chapel?" In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of Javert began again: "Here. What do you want with him?" an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on the sleeping Bishop. These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle "Father--" cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO The servant stammered:-- had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than BOOK SECOND--THE FALL whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a which finally attracted the attention of the swans. in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the shall set out in an hour." uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later Marius assumed a grave tone: When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. household. indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her altogether. women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the herself once more on her chair. there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of "Yes, and a hand stopping it." unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not With all their money back returned." Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was pursued: of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different The wicket opened. from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with still. who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" And he took off his shoes. of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular Some new thing had come into his soul. the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village After an interval of silence she went on:-- that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in profound conviction. the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very Bookcover to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and this youth. a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier lost. The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same