order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you blossomed forth from the twilight. destiny, only by bending over more and more. quarter. out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their Monté sur deux échasses. hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to radiance of death. She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that near the Jena bridge." pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. white." councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from to time. Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a which is waiting to be put away somewhere. he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. Madeleine glanced about him. compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a theirs." certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van table in a corner of the wall. Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of "M. Madeleine!" the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. The sun was mounting above the horizon. in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. "Smile." streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the inn-keeper:-- CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle basket. side of an abyss: within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not Marius. girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it she was trembling. little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all longer find his bearings. religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale revolution with a shade. handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; loudly:-- to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; thieves had given him. paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, "One." M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; writhed. articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have "With me!" said Marius. That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had "You were not at the school day before yesterday." the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the "O modesty!" said Marius. soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? angry with him for this avowal. background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in always a good thing to have a pin about one." broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder as they passed by. The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, "How do you amuse yourself?" Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour would not quit your family to go and see a creature." between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, There was a tumult, then silence. The same silence. a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. to affect the netting under which the three children lay. intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to of the hole." only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. out of this." Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. "Go and get the child," said he. Enlarge about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" "Who is that man?" him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a "But--" of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he the Café Musain. pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. inspector. there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what "Yes, I do." discussion just now." of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running delighted to make a jest. They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the dying. when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, "Like other people." his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever Enlarge Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an "I will give it," said the mother. something else. It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages country of jet . . ." CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN before him. of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "The rats." At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both began to gaze fixedly at the audience. in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened "Utterly naked! What's the father?" round:-- missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a there. the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not terrible thing! of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the was terrible. Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the steps towards the door. and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How be blind, as his sister was beside him. times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force the man in there?" is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. "I know what you want." Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's going?" the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, D----, Dec. 16, 18--. to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor "His son?" said the porter stupidly. and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only trap; the barricade did not reply. with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging evident Jacquerie:-- The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating himself to Laigle de Meaux. Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of table of white marble. the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of "Joker!" may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined Grelotte, Lolotte! "Oh, I get in." each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, instinct, and recoiled before heroism. in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living The Gorbeau Hovel or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and question that I came across." set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." great care. see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his arrested." "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain "Gamin!" said Enjolras. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally Little Gavroche Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the it, "fallen from the sky." but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute "He is coming in a fiacre." coldly:-- departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a are using up our ammunition for nothing." this morning." legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour gentleness. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither gallop. Then throwing down the pen:-- of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. woman, no doubt." time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing "There came a blow with a stick. of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their horrible. impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since "You shall see!" bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, himself:-- case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW "And I know how to write, too!" opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the Jean Valjean listened. the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. "I say, 'Famous!'" you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont other Fauvent_. profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but Here a short digression becomes necessary. delighted to make a jest. face, but his name as well. unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even In this, possibly, he made a mistake. M. Leblanc obeyed. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." single chair of any sort. who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young the whole world, both of them completely alone. who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard two upper ones." taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall "No." Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost "How much shall you need?" "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. be in the street. CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER "Of you!" ejaculated the man. which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, woman had become a corpse again. peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. She retorted with acrimony:-- breath. so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. "The empty coffin remains." crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to with his finger on his lips. a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his and the difficulty of procuring a passport. fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed reader's mind. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked "No," said the priest. and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and place of the Cathedral of Rheims. is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" catch them one by one:-- combats the inexhaustible. "Reverend Mother!" and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to her guess was correct: the doctor approved. Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole horse for the rider. was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine that pane for you!" interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be Favourite paused, and then went on:-- and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime,