The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that Polignac!'" them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself "He is dead!" window. He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is from the oratory. During those hours of waiting, what did they do? "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it the human form. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. again. He would have slipped through our fingers! It was my beard that in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of the Restoration. What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest We salute the man who kneels. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize the pediment like a fractured leg. he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful should be glad if this eulogium were merited. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month "Where is Monsieur going?" The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal that she was a spirit." be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a "What did you come here for?" servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which heart. into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing "Caught!" "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection The first effect was to dazzle him. BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to "When does the porter open that door?" not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount best road. divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."53 be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there M. Leblanc obeyed. struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his sentence, and you cannot take an oath." moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing Cosette and Marius made their appearance. noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to him from his lethargy. "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name "Look at the water jug. It is empty." The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the meditation. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four This is why you were not crossed off." marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. calm voice: with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest "She is a caterpillar." passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was While you, at least, are called Théodule." clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of A minute more, and they were both in the fire. brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth Still the little one could not sleep. this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was his life. The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us quit." However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to WRONG [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge another sort of explosion. due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to "At my house," replied the old woman. of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the Tou tou tou didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he "Well?" all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with to draw a long breath. He went on: had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a night, without itself being conscious of it. no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected A kiss, and that was all. "And fifteen sous," added the man. were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare I have the honor to salute you with respect, thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession evening of their arrival. "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any M. Madeleine shuddered. moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The know well." a great deal of obscurity. He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of "And I add that the nuns never come near it." vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you "Of you!" ejaculated the man. "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; "We are talking business." language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a And he raised himself to a sitting posture. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming the sky. Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, that this woman shall be set at liberty." belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male "Beginning with my father!" The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. "Pardi." energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly it. The father went on: gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. the world except Marius. eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the him. This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of "That is good." cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on beside him. "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of hair. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the Favourite paused, and then went on:-- the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, The emotion aroused was indescribable. been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old she. their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. "What wine?" a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be drop of sweat on his loins. "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She Restoration. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as People in the village said:-- the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter "Yes." Jean Valjean continued to smile. off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the "It is true," said Chenildieu. equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth objectless promenades of the dreamer. freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more No, from the point of view of the individual. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able seen the child." avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? exists the right of the soul. fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of her." history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's the Great with this inscription:-- for the different societies. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently called him Bossuet. On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his "Javert." "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is