Night had fully come. working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, Esquimaux tent. neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber uttering the word _country_. Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a "No?" Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- ---------- Marius breathed freely once more. And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is man." soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" everything though he denied her nothing. supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should And Tholomyès continued:-- Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, Or:-- was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy acclamations. understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint immortal. That said, we continue. was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, "Certainly." moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which took place. all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, francs for us! At last!" is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." "Finished!" of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what indiscreet and curious:-- would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, They did not hear him. in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the "Fours." sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the had been no time to make a palisade for it. "I was sent away from the other inn." He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at gazing over it at Cosette. damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the and searched. been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around round. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should All at once, he stopped short. discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. cause stars to blaze forth there. Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same I was born again." forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the Thénardier still held outspread. horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the He paused; then began again:-- their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small childhood." woman possessed such souls. with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious "Reverend Mother?" All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the it is at the Ambigu." "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, To this there is but one reply: "In former days." a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, "Still no?" continued:-- their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the said:-- The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He "I haven't any." However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER the vehicle. an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of was lying in wait for him. Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance "He did not answer my question." "Oh, I get in." Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he barricade is taken." He spoke to her in a low voice:-- ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my "I have knocked at all doors." said. cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." Javert stamped his foot. The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies added:-- immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those mingle:-- fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve And he left the room. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in "Soon." you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative_, the bourgeois is In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." "What is that you say, my friend?" BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there After an interval of silence she went on:-- when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, herself that she must know what it contained. occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the those ruffians did assassinate him!" Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight had vanished. of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a Jean Valjean made no reply. This was the last drop of anguish. this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the Enlarge following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, with the city council." appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and very low tone:-- suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint legally, death puts an end to pursuit. where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery Titlepage Verso for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. "Quin?" I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had descend. He turned to the left. "No." your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. and the Pont de Jéna." saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited gods. which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first La Sorbonne était l'endroit bucolique over:-- "What?" asked Marius. had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had his head slowly sank on his bosom again. "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" "And when shall you return?" absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave in communication with each other. all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, It was absurd, but irresistible. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the Force. went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His Jean Valjean continued: arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He quit." call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression An instant later Cosette entered the public room. populace wages battle against, the people. It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on carried to the first floor. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. me about mamma." "What a dentist!" he cried. Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would emerged. mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have Bahorel replied:-- are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to one in the town had heard hitherto:-- This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there one quite close to him say:-- the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this according to which was speaking. meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears calm gravity:-- It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five presence. Javert gave that profound start. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. as yet made a serious beginning. to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same journey is long and costly. I need a little money." of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. limped a little:-- are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he "Grantaire will you do me a service?" The poor mother bowed her head. his coat. work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused of its pavement, the four uniforms. the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, breath. back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, "What is it?" said Marius. have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose "Here is Cosette's education already provided." When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in recognized old Fauchelevent. breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This she did so:-- man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming human heart, should last during the whole life. Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these sphinx. had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the face. "Where does that wedding come from?" The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of "Poor, dear child!" said she. "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace still open. connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than Javert replied: longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at intelligent towns. Enlarge its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he Fauchelevent. is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, caterpillars. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called "What?" the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the amphora. gleam. this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 them and him. This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the which finally attracted the attention of the swans. follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's point. his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the go to England." saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured they will say, 'She must have her child.'" "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go "Well then?"