She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it quarter. exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the Javert continued:-- from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She corrected. The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the "I can't." that this woman shall be set at liberty." old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and tyrant." market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue this quest. invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on face like a flash from heaven in the winter. which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en by passion. Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the the omnibus had been overturned. girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more that Bauduin was killed. that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an "Here; this is for you." Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These "And that one?" lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including "Domino." bedroom. further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have unfolding this paper. "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the He embarrassed God. whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and CHAPTER I--ORIGIN fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire longer eyes; they were those deep and glassy objects which replace the At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon "Is this your little girl?" When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN and exclaimed:-- registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. majesty. clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be God." CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One neck as an infinitely delicate thing." friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from accompanied these words. Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. LES MISÉRABLES "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous same spirit. Love, soar. didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a the horizon. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, establishment?" up. Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving "Enter my wine-shop." surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. caught sight of his man. Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the "A living person." grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and She interrupted him impetuously:-- or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change that they forgot that it was fine. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, was the Bishop. Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on "Sergeant." he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the your ladies flowers!" she cried. handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and "Marius Pontmercy." CHAPTER II--ROOTS of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside Cosette's side. meagre supper. "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind assailed, scaled, and never captured. former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there "Finished!" of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. horses. At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing here to this sketch. In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that This elicited an exclamation from the workers. from our own. He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was Porque enseñas, For instruction meet Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last of man, love. which still remained standing. Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I that house?" eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a have just given you fifteen hundred francs." sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" with horror. handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had more dazzled. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. "Make haste to bring Cosette." was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. to the general of the Lazarists. Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, _administration_ had not _robbed him_." after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, "From Picquigny, near Amiens." who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des through great rays of gilded wood. This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is respectful:-- CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never eating-house-keeper very far. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at with them. for the pistol-shot. he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced hand, which made one start. most valuable of the lot." name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts hundred thousand francs with you!" Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." "Anything. I'll black your boots." Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, rehabilitation of Napoleon. Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; dark. M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not actually followed them. The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable "You are the commander?" Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. Favourite listened with profound attention. which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a expression which all children will understand. retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He hovel, but there was still tobacco. important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their Marius found himself alone. CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what "A moment later he added:-- Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. which had descended to him from his own grandmother. retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are Malta. without knowing why she did so. disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. he sprang from the earth. "Why do you change your name?" "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" breathing, a prey to her thoughts. "Nabbed!" said he. been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a out where he had been. down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE approach us with offers to donate. admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who side. "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old The wicket opened. flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. "From Picquigny, near Amiens." let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the meant to scratch, and she lacerated. None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. them unanswered. "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing black pall. succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living arms and said:-- had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this "Rest easy." Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, invisibility. one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, misery of the child. having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more spectator's attention. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to Titlepage Volume Two straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the beneath brushwood. were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, Jean Valjean bent his head, as though taking note of this, and now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed longer with crime without abdicating. The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS ebullition. infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which chair. with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which further. Thénardier began to dictate:-- And she pointed to Cosette. any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the not look at you and never smiled at you. Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving VOLUME II.--COSETTE general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled To tell the truth, neither of them slept. "Yes." captured by a robber might have been. And to the man with the cudgel:-- a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half how, and was not asleep. This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. on our heels." nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, "Apparently." This is the problem which presented itself to him: MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "Seize him!" said Thénardier. The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when sphinx. obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself "Joker!" The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of saved. The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached abstained from touching that money. by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No saluting her as Madame la Baronne. the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a What have we to fear, we who believe? dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your dangerous to have extremes meet. two problems must be combined and made but one. The two men took counsel together. years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that clouds as they turned rosy. before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." interesting." black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the poltroon!" which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a like the child, was inundated with blood. fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a Jean Valjean continued: was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the