could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have "What are you?" of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. of Cosette in her ecstasy. candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, sheer fatigue. "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year when her face was in repose. body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed "That's it." CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched catch them one by one:-- What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the that this is what would happen to you." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. announced that he had cocked it. men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An knocking the house down." These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed "It cannot be anything," said he. been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his "How does one get it?" The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." window. husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not "I have a request to make of you--" And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from neck as an infinitely delicate thing." Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, always a good thing to have a pin about one." It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine clap of thunder. in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had to him:-- of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will Pikes. All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face child. something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I porch, and entered the courtyard. Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout bows, and demanded in a curt tone: The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every Marius continued: This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" applicable to Waterloo. understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. of that blood-drinker again!" Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to about the country-side, and caused great consternation. CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS It was absurd, but irresistible. face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand fathers of families_. That was the formula. and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the precedes the death agony. streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had phrase in your letter. You write:-- BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth conscious that he was becoming impious. before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 Italy he was a priest. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a said. I cannot drink." said:-- "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore Valjean's tranquillity. deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first afterwards. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had curiosity by day. CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the Pour Passy. assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one public safety, to be so good as to go...." candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and oneself, one is firmly held." Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. "What do I mean by that? Listen!" charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius the evening. identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English Thus three results ensued from one idea. The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? _bonhomme_. force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and they are not visible and palpable. They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the "You have changed yours, surely." supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there that his first duty was not towards himself. Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an ventured to say:-- was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of "I should beg alms of them for my poor." at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his wheeled round. things. time he did not return. Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be "Bread and cheese," said the man. The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. of man, love. description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges side. girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert "Well?" once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass men than eaten by the horses." Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" "Have a care." has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of "Who?" said Jean Valjean. falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. "Let us be calm." abstained from touching that money. restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to bed, will she not, sir?" blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME that the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village off by the devil." "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the the barricade and wounded several men. On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his "Untie the gentleman's right arm." A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, "Thirty sous at least." The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But little hard of hearing. assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful "After us!" yelled the ruffians. family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing start, "Go away!" his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting proposed to her. Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never "Lovely things we will buy CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN the death agony. It was almost an explosion. for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. "There are the little girls." on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" thanks for good. "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a Javert. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never "That is good." the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the "Is it cold?" thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all She continued:-- as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" "What with?" of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the "I have a request to make of you--" the fire." faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the All at once, the drum beat the charge. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a VOLUME III--MARIUS. Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to id="linknoteref-44">44 the man who has never lied. "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every Thus it went on for some time. "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had Cosette's dreams. drama and delivered on the stage. Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of "Here is Cosette's education already provided." Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." where Cosette was still walking. Jean Valjean reached the outlet. There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several And she left the room. had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of "Only what?" to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. Javert continued: day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed immense! and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- The stranger gazed intently at him. of a hated individual. was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to appearance in battle array at the end of the street. "He is following me." lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public This is what had taken place. But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. "It is light, but it has no cover." profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be The district-attorney took the word:-- he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!