a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he building Number 50-52. (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the of the bucket. English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- Let us go on. indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had "Angel!" said Marius. up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a fortify him in his resolution. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring revery. retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as traitor in order to succor it.27 M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion lose a single syllable:-- the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask "Your sick man is very ill indeed." addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not of movement for the death of Being. The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was his head. was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 on the grass. Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He him; the perspiration was pouring from him. Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But the scarf became a shawl once more. with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done "Is the team harnessed?" height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had The man followed him. which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, "No." multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether "Informed against me!" with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and Cosette had emerged from under the table. mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names "Dismiss the carriage!" "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree realm_. astonishment. alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; He was decidedly terrified. de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, itself in horror, must end in killing war. tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he one would have said that he saw some one. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, earthquake. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette No. 17." On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, _"French Republic."_ "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex himself took them for a whole throng. gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "Why are they turned out?" he asked. of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her "And that one?" arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. was transfigured into Christ. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange Thénardier made a movement towards her. On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a So saying, the usher turned his back. and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you "I will take it." sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. that they give you suck." head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." something." not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation pursued: great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only "Excuse me, sir--" Ont le même destin; The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of obscurity. Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they bedroom. "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding away. is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. in his manner. The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, Pour Meudon. rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was facilitate this tale. They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, it." their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent a hole there with his eyes. For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in "I must be there this evening." a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, him:-- motionless and speechless. and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the "Well then?" Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every head struck him as decidedly suspicious. charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from them. She seized the coin. were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to "Empty?" guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where it by hope. He said:-- The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" with the persistence of the _I_. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well already has some idea of it. In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." gaze. to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates not ill. really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING trip to Montfermeil. to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his leading to the nuns' corner. much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to him pay his fare. slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop most deadly insult. henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, of his comrades. one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, There was no means of opening the gate. promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. "And the money?" inquired the woman. Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the "I do not know what you mean." between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer "You have saved my life. Who are you?" this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had infirmary and see Fantine. on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He was extinguished. and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one billows of the invisible; he shouts. had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed From this denseness the carnage arose. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to "There!" said Guelemer. him. Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides fellow began to tremble again. "How pretty it is here!" knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. Marius. He resumed:-- rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, he will not come back!" aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the Théodule." waiting for you." "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. "Will you open, yes or no?" a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without "Well?" She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. "I can't quit the vehicle." moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish set out across the thickets. was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly one. He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned occasionally had recourse: "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the Cosette halted in alarm. Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty way or at the side. "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." is dead, is he not?" We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was There were only four uniforms. Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes Champs-Élysées. of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, four. "Cosette!" stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began mistaken for a book. "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold become absorbed in his reflections. and very obedient servant, The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by right or to the left. to gallantry. "At the _Bon Coing_." into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, wear socks were barefooted. After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, "I must be there this evening." On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold That is even written on the wall." fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- head. that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a Mysterious incidents occurred. man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend a return of a river on its course. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; waiting for thee. Come with confidence." Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. I who have pointed him out to her." see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is She interrupted him impetuously:-- mean?" of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of "Ah!" Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous forest. "How is your wife?" relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE "Fire!" replied Enjolras. are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" assassin?" what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible