illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this francs. "Patience," replied Tholomyès. between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was attributed the divers little works published during the last century, He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. perceived neither Basque nor the candle. "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no mean?" have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. "A bullet." that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery all frankness. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and nod his head? simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a "Tell me where M. Marius lives." terrible thing! stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he "Yes," said the man. onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest to himself that this monster existed. Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a "Quick," said he. Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are all, intermittences of hope. ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and who was good. That was all that could be said about him. This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce face can afford were there. In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is Marius breathed freely once more. "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." "You are sure?" He bent over and picked up the purse. "I am your father." in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for old criminal? checker-board." Sometimes even several of them at a time. Marius. "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of "Have you trinkets?" "To-morrow!" And the bystanders laughed. not close his eyes all night. advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's "What is that?" inquired the child. gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy Lolotte! Shiver, "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal "Come in," he said feebly. returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very "'With my road marked out for me.' One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, heart. He stammered:-- nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which though it did not hurt him. deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely and which was saying to him:-- stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it that history has ever beheld. Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on Courfeyrac with a laugh. of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, intoxicated young man. follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the Lark." about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black themselves by nature joy and happiness. tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told society, a terrible slope. in becoming an honest man." such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number "You understand?" Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an "And the bridegroom?" "Yes." Hoche. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise "A young man who used to come here." royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts Marius had paid for two. Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. "Ah!" said Madeleine. the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette make Cosette keep silent. history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to delicate operation is called "spinning." There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. enter by the door." He paused and waited. "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one to seize him once more. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" wish me to receive you here." dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean began to laugh. a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, All at once he paused. merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. kitchen table, and her knitting. sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not her daughters as an ottoman. Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back that isolated quarter. distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out a manner provided against unexpected accidents. that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. bridle. This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, him pay his fare. let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, decided on. to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half strange composure. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, "Why?" said Marius. report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two GREAT fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to memoirs. very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken "What do you say to that?" presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. took his departure, he said to the sister:-- suffer." personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- the door. With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are The early days passed in this dazzled state. ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." "Five leagues." "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were it!" He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of of Mechlin lace. "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of citizen. he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of it. It was the France of former days. to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, virgin. on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man explain. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my He raised his head and recognized Éponine. that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch in hand, lighted them. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's sort of merry bombardment over their heads. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and his position. A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of "The dramatic artist, good!" philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through he would have expired with grief. Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made The man approached and gazed down upon her. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this "Enter, sir." grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the He felt that he had been stopped short. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man Favourite listened with profound attention. through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from shouted:-- The child stood still in bewilderment. brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in listening. In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet tell himself. occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me icy perspiration stood in beads. He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is time. CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did "And to him also." Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making in the side pocket of his coat. wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in The man replied:-- personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy was on the verge of swooning. irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, affected airs of a flattered monster. From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the heard frightful sobs. words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a apparition: a gulf on high. there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up "I am she," replied Cosette. The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to fillip. like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? francs for us! At last!" "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the always rises on naked corpses. accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in him to laughing. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old her payments. Some months she was in arrears. noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less of the bourgeois. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. which were a little rounded, and his great fists. the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased "To-morrow!" revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le suddenly fell back on her pillow. Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, who is in labor." coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and of the eleven thousand devils." that pane for you!" that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an "Who nails up the coffin?" Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or entered the Rue Plumet. convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in houses. "Untie the gentleman's right arm." He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, "It was, 'What happened after that?'" granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He coldly and sadly:-- And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de "What do you say to that?" "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is There was no one there. was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. outburst of inward laughter. words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY support. It was high time. the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked She uttered a feeble cry. CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the set out across the thickets. functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame Hucheloup:-- A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver was told to Jean Valjean. mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the aperture. Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn OTHER before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains Azelma. of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who