The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- vices and aspired to all crimes. uniform." It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star to read." been there a moment before. was dead, and a chill ran over him. same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold insolence of others. centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may "What will you give me?" out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, There was no means of opening the gate. She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, the wood." on the pavements of Paris. sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace This was his expression. abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, not sorry. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The "He was." district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am "God--or the Devil." Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at "FANTINE." wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to unbearable. lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as heard frightful sobs. many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; nothing more. known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great windows of the Fine-Air. Fauchelevent replied:-- of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we happened to me." the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock Robespierre waistcoat. BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in rusty knocker. "You will see." "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit had a round hat. The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To feelings. the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" wherever I am." "Yesterday." had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- Jean Valjean continued: "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded having gone off "to watch events." make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE did you bring so many; they were not needed." child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately He went on:-- "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will "What is your little one's name?" rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger "But, Mr. Mayor--" opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy converted into evil. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and along. This made a noise which afforded her company. It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in man's self-sufficiency. himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no "Are you sad?" and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve the prison."_ which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get of the twilight. He proceeded thither. proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to with the infinity on high, is called praying. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely take any notice of this sad side of his success. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." line. Then they set out again on the march. "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate them. plain Courfeyrac. beheld, but it was grand. the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters "Expectations?" shelter." for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, and black with mud. "Wait until the day after to-morrow." of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too Marius had retreated gently. CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This 1830." At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole "So it was a woman?" said he. He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. the old man a jar of milk. Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls Polignac!'" for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at The four young women looked at each other. the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, shudder:-- is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other "Beware!" she shouted. by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent lugubrious. "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most door. to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the direction of liberty. Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was convent through humility. of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which heap of rubbish." Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and Jondrette exclaimed:-- CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she "Hey?" said Gavroche again. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. you!" "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the Fauchelevent replied:-- voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and "Well?" and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the Bossuet burst out laughing. when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, "Something." This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own "That is possible." After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil befits it. men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. pavement under his feet, but only mud. "Where?" branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and shaved head and a long beard. after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze gendarme." and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy little lungs. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came destroying the humane side. advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. and leaning on the table. one of the divisions of the social order. found. So he has dived through the earth." I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct them:-- "Well?" vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious delicate operation is called "spinning." him:-- the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton such a pitiful fool as that!" "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. Fauchelevent bowed again. ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? "I can't budge." hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving She came and set her elbows on the table. purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who a failure gazing at that triumph, love. floor, where it stopped. "Who goes there?" said the master. small garden. suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against the room. antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal inherited his pickaxe. men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the Thénardier resumed: that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on There was but one thing to be done. coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. "And he drank heartily." where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners talent, and they were superb. The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius was "an egoist." it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. cemetery." Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since his bare arm. comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the pay for a passport!" entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a could not doubt. Enlarge the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the "Welcome, citizen." His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, epoch. speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in "I am going to try something." all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber dismiss the fiacre." you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a other and assuming, each the other's qualities. on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was that that was what he ought to do. He could not. were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "I have no money to buy any dinner." CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period in the mire. walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, "No." the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by room of the Café Musain. "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I knocking the house down." had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. Before the man had time to speak again, she added:--