white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors in a growth of nettles. of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The further advanced than at the beginning. June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The a frightened air. He continued:-- murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION girls trembled and dropped their eyes. "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- in the morning?" for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and thousand francs. gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the necessary, I will go myself." it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of the children's doll!" tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS table: ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. the government." On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be be in the street. "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes "He told me that he was in good health." "They will not open." which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of changed. fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once once." And to the man with the cudgel:-- and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for "No." made there." his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. gold napoleon apiece for them." across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "Hey?" said Gavroche again. crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. again. beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had Jean Valjean remained silent. personage who was in advance. road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. Fauchelevent replied:-- there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. What had become of Jean Valjean? will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to "No!" force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled was changing its aspect every moment. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, "We are on the way there," said the child. sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one cart-wheels. cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to resuscitate it? "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. bedroom. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his "Or somewhere in that direction." and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th "Well, father--" said Marius. both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "I am very sorry--" the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning "Number 7." should not hear his breathing. their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in "The devil, no." A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, "The sun is on the point of setting." a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, authorities." remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they This very small change had effected a revolution. This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the No, from the point of view of the individual. the rule greatly aggravates. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the must give air to the English army." for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. musician, but I want the clarionet." here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless very softly. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's very softly. woollen stockings and blankets." side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. man. rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he "That's true." "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." go out." less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation which he wore into his trousers. Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the "That's settled," said the grandfather. To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to CHAPTER II--MADELEINE imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and "Some petticoat or other." He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and "Yes, but--" a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! old man's. Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had among the possibilities in the way of furniture. state of alarm. to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and Why? of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on he has." that spy?" answer from Jondrette. unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. in his manner. demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings She retorted with acrimony:-- As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I reason for desiring that you should know who I am." voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- this epoch. the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by "And when do you start?" The boy was already far away. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the "I can't." used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted "Thénardier." iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one night. say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still in lieu of the ---- above.} a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with flight. "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled "What young 'un?" shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? With all their money back returned." vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it There was but one thing to be done. "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own The vagabonds. that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for her cease weeping. Friends of the A B C These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became CHAPTER III--THE LARK Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The Sometimes even several of them at a time. to an unhappy soul. After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of "But the commissary of police--" parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is over. Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself night: certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he Let us complete this exposition. AUSTERLITS historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, fist,--such was the attack. been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public hear about the matter early enough in any case. and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as elucidate or interrogate. proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's "It is so." "That Javert committed suicide." country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." "You can do something," said she. with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now chance, had given him back to her. fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were "Here it is." cardinal. linnets warble in the trees. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in "Everything is as usual." that isolated quarter. from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this human irresponsibility is mingled with them. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and "What?" called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. inexorable." the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." on her knees. Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. which contains an idea of torture and abasement. Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword often talks aloud. taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he there, then, above the sun? The god. are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a on a run. CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture had disappeared, but in his heart. Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The He was accompanied by an old woman. "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" was never explained. In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he the sound proceeded. barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to A third shovelful of earth fell. The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE with their knees on the stones. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid "It is light, but it has no cover."