of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, in communication with each other. flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of Fauchelevent replied:-- and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the to conquer! killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls same odor of tobacco. at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which Marius and Cosette. enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue run in debt there. most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to that history has ever beheld. larger with the proud light within them. One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he to be looking on. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The "It's I," said he. little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low "Nothing." This man was _the_ man. except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and "Sign. What is your name?" the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung The Thénardier resumed:-- had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, must be destroyed also." when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the father. am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" misery of the child. "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes M. Madeleine shuddered. misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the The grave-digger dropped his shovel. cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the "Immediately. Call the child." only bird which bears up its own cage. thought. Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." charcoal ready." Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was people call Monseigneur Welcome?" Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the great age permitted. thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared cover his hands with kisses. However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted Exelmans quitted the procession. "Has old Bougon left?" her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars "You are dead. A two." love. time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by Valjean alighted. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part loss of one's soul. of the English camp were audible. advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! "Oh! would that I could die!" what made me run so." I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for to mention it. crossed a "Where are you going?" a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! "Well, doctor?" Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. Red Hot Chisel This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and dangerous to have extremes meet. came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, NAPOLEON IS MADE the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's "Then give me a drink," said Javert. Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of frown. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the "I will go and inform Madame." but without even turning his eyes in her direction. which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or man's self-sufficiency. produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this and it was a long time before he recovered from it. "What tale are you telling me?" the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, galleys. Grand reign; grand century. irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable. Combeferre would have with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four could add nothing to this blackness of this night. Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being was burning there. himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing "Set out." at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag "You?" "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. flowers before man cut stones. conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the "No." After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of He was troubled from all these points of view. innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the said:-- neither assent nor refusal. the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we "What act?" rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of hunchback_. Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place been arrested by properly conducted police." sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides The child's voice responded:-- commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds The old woman obeyed in all haste. and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being "Yes." M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had at a time. These men watched me pass. the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf maw of the clouds. fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles much is it?" conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated She went on:-- a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, indescribable accent:-- I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on "Now I own your work; play, my child." view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you thing. Error! and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these arranged, reverend Mother?" down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. "Yesterday." subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, remained standing, contemplating what he saw. dithyrambs. this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his office." officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR there. Marius was not there. a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the preparing. One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the to M. Leblanc. to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be half open. fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, dignity. there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the Madeleine made no reply. vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. replied, with assurance:-- with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls jack-screw. behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," post should perceive your presence." discussion just now." CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. reduction, discarding all hatred. Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable "Twenty-three francs?" seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had "You will see." WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you who finds himself on travells when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the and no one entered the house. He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, the order. coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a Marius left the house. glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les sphinx. "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give As we stroll the faubourgs through. grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, to be absent for three days?" His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." No one stirred. "Really?" where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of table. May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical pinioned, he helped him to drink. profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, comrades believe that he was in general demand. The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the order. souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Being." curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. "Yes." up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were at http://pglaf.org A year passed; then another. Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the distance and crying:-- loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- the woods. Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since He started to his feet. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was she was capable. This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on be an object coveted by all. The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people darkness. has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception,