Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes other something moving through the smoke. gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing charge is decreased. "What am I to do?" him a sort of trumpet. Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had "What riots?" her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend CHAPTER I The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in Enlarge to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was himself. Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: wolf. "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. the ruffians in turn:-- in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden monasticism. Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. in my carpet-bag." The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked towers of Notre Dame. earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a She began to laugh. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his carved, Chinese ivory handle of a parasol, and her silken shoe outlined delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you Marius gazed intently at him: "What is your name?" CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical "I am entirely devoted to the convent." Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? Take it. He says that here is haste." Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being disappointment to impatience. collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against "Grantaire will you do me a service?" last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, said to the spy:-- of the patrol of the right bank. Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied REVOLUTIONIST _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ Silence fell again. "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. which lay at Cosette's feet. always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of planets fill the infinite universe. The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after both; that is to say, a thief." to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of of caverns. and searched. people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; 7." for him. It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of of Saint-Marceau. historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole. He probity. Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of "Yes." of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately Tin tin tin Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, "He is warning us," said Combeferre. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight "Well?" said Jean Valjean. three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. VOLUME II.--COSETTE after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard "He was." From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom something terrible. denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. "Come in," said Marius. "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the Valjean's tranquillity. "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a WHOLLY OF WILLOW, "Yes, sir." knows who has been there or will be there." there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth millionaire of stars. And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple The father was saying to his son: firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: the empty coffin?" After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth "Impossible." citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged "Théodule, your grandnephew." "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. I won't go to his funeral." ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a Fauchelevent replied:-- cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself it. It was the France of former days. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice LES MISÉRABLES had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well "Why?" "Enter, sir." "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, a sovereign manner. themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on "She will grow up ugly." "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. was on the verge of swooning. please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked Here he broke his silence. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his out with a start:-- little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been little girl whom Fantine heard singing. is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother Succor from Below told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been might. The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what them. to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it them, and his heart began to beat. which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. the bride. celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and centimes." she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- thus gained, in fact. Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.