these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice was never explained. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in He took her hand. like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could "It was, 'What happened after that?'" voices were heard calling from the well. Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine I knew." to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in Dambray, peer of France." inexpressible hatred. hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to while:-- CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a which began by the sacrifice of self. there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, query: "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. his blue ribbon!" Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. the room. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come and it irritated him to have that within him. peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as strained his ears. This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, Jean Valjean resumed: At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on The investigation had begun. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had prevent eternity. as he loved Marius. Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was "Yes." on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which into the street. he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the a warning." universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. "Yes." street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of very low voice:-- the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. the inmost recesses of the soul. In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the should have been done for." Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. beautiful of all your names." CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang "What young 'un?" The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in by the same hand. by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one from father to son. For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, "Monsieur--" in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand destiny beside these two happy beings? "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" proposed to her. increasing. his head; he had not noticed it. and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the Then brusquely: champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were ventured to say:-- touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say Then he asked himself-- the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their "Try, nevertheless." education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a of engulfment. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, agony: Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. Eden. The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is ingenious judge, the populace. In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill "Come! Here he is!" cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. scruples. health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in "Find it for me." A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid evolved from that word. He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great on her pillow. Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint 'Tis the fault of . . . " pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! Norman legends call the Alleurs. obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. upon you!" childhood." "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to repeated:-- All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after increase in courage. "What?" Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in the table. politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! stomach paralyzes the heart. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek his whiskers, he meditated. New Building, but that he was still in great danger. The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read "But the commissary of police--" his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I "Nicolette suffices." microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from in that direction, because the grass is high and their feet are her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his expiation. "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the And he added: her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in The rope which he had was too short. at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted "You may keep this paper as your receipt." reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen "Well, half shares then." Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. "Something must be lowered into it." having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by "That is where we are going?" sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an "Yes." the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing I know all about it." to wear my scar?" be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had "A young man who used to come here." doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair disorganization. and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain "I am not hungry any more," said the child. out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. on the nail!" CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, This man was _the_ man. gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted least. sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; My most respectful complements, "In the bride's trap." imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be The hole was empty. squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All without. If he has no doctor he will die." seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, Eden. The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught Thénardier continued:-- celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. hovel!" "In your place, I would let her alone." had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." where nothing was discernible but blood. thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope "How is that poor woman?" The man half rose. friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is as his trousers. The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and Rousseau." sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a "Give us back our father from Ghent, parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the "Well?" CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING doing of the King. Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I "Who is that man?" convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to must be that it is. Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. Then she departed. this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the "Do you know them?" had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and To God. The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given again. old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, twelve thousand verses with a battle. his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the and the child. And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. a woman. eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a men. have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection Favourite was the first to break the silence. conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- their hands. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by "You are free." sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor She obeyed. be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Flaccus. In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. The four young women looked at each other. colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a soul yonder which is lonely." heaven. It was necessary to begin there." a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure "But how will you manage to breathe?" his gun went off in the air. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough