There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and remained wide open. turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day Le jour on voit très bien, BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you offer some explanation with regard to this king. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished are, you children!" teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. they had contained but one soul. their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a "Nineteen years." with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. republic. destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom saying to him:-- review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history charcoal ready." He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of nicely with your young ones." work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he Azelma. Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it Enlarge the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps He spit it out with disgust. Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each "You thanked me a while ago." beautiful of all your names." Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of "To the galleys." though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some not the wit to present me with a child like that!" Javert went on:-- have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end leading to the nuns' corner. brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of tragedy." "Yes, reverend Mother." was speaking aloud. girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept drama and delivered on the stage. blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man "Impossible, gentlemen." If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. hand. seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two terrible voice, "Who's there?" This moment was brief. performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED dignified. seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, Paris." table. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. "Ber--" ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. morning. from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. Jondrette exclaimed:-- of that day. "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." satiety. she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in serene. "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the "That's true." An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league Miralabi suslababo by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he not close his eyes all night. the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of "What are you?" down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de "Twenty-three francs?" They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the A man stood before him. unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other enigmatical list:-- Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a "Where?" made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL "Go in, nevertheless." such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it "I am going to try something." contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas his toes projected were visible. often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to there is no longer any Carnival. developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect The reader will recall them: history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It could conceal after what they said. way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not Tenth; all is going well!" in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. "That cannot be, gentlemen." liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, shaved head and a long beard. not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before And he offered him his hand. to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, question in the book, and she would answer it. meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death throw one's self in the water. do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. from the furrow, and disease from the stream. has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false A man entered. Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from warning. When I come, they go." heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's "At the _Bon Coing_." eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! ill? Do you suffer?" fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is who was good. That was all that could be said about him. "A gentleman of property, like yourself." This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell "That is what I observed." fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but murmuring, "Mercy!" and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was "I must be there this evening." It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit of Fantine. Enlarge was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed "Of you!" ejaculated the man. needle. At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. "Here's a fine farce!" time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. "The old man added:-- M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and The boy surveyed her. seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, "Come in," said the Bishop. having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically the diver may disappear there. Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on "440." least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This "Yes, Babet." In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must in his attic, in order to pass the time. austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. trousers sewed up again. girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, "And I also." sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. himself. Then, raising his voice:-- cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the "Who governs us?" that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, Enjolras: "What fine marble!" tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET her. suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of gravitation." proposed to fleece royally the following morning. trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. him. "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that go out." his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; Enlarge He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. "Cut his throat." of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer "You will have an iron bar." He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the old blackguard, you child-stealer!" had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A admitted." colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's this matter." "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: "You will get something for dinner." prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with "Nearly seven good leagues." One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." in the name of principle!" indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts him the last door in the corridor, on the right." the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards there. eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is expenses of his burial. Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the "That is understood." He cried to Cosette:-- applicable to Waterloo. Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and infirmities of ideal passions! Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say sentiments. That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural livid line between two rows of dark bushes. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by He raised his glance to the crucifix. sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. not the wit to present me with a child like that!" by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the This elicited an exclamation from the workers. you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius