him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered had wept in nineteen years. farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the "Oh, you who are! Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces fulfilment. opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling "Yes," said Marius. is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some "No." will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. this question: He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, on. shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it "Speak." fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder effort in speaking in this manner: Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a brought in. teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This a better table than you do.' deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia sobriquet!" which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his tell me one hundred and nine francs?" This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who "Why?" "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach "The dramatic artist, good!" right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens "No." was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at out at full length, and exclaimed:-- and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the "philanthropist" had left with him. recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. with her smile. either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall "Yes," said Marius. old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for "He told me that he was in good health." proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the work the business." their neighbors. unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is "Come, now, what do you want of me?" Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings hand--his whole fortune, probably. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized Arras to-morrow." there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the side of an abyss: "Where is Montparnasse?" succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it "But I did not say 'more often.'" "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the "Poor, dear child!" said she. "The address that you asked me to get!" longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur head. forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had "Yes." level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, Marius bitterly:-- would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included He was absorbed, in fact. sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow So her fault was now known to every one. One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" surprise. At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, shriek which she confined to her throat. century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. such an expression, is to be the conqueror! Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose on the boulevard. unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel The waiter replied:-- stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties purple, flame-colored. the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. "Javert." my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who inspector and added:-- of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter Sometimes even several of them at a time. quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the almost fierce. afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed To Monsieur Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the "We have been looking everywhere for that!" He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; waiting for thee. Come with confidence." CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been "But we must live, we must eat--" as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What her payments. Some months she was in arrears. CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was "I haven't any." was on the verge of swooning. nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been to me!" be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth convalescents." it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the She did not wake. "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by The President addressed him:-- consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as man who had violated it. Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more "Yes, you." rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." This is why you were not crossed off." night, without itself being conscious of it. have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with him. Man is the second. barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she was heard to open and shut again. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two that." Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor himself. Then, raising his voice:-- "That is certain." proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: was "an egoist." in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When grumbled:-- himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and Jean Valjean caught himself up. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability playing tricks on each other. He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 "He is warning us," said Combeferre. with horror. elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine "Who governs us?" successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which who still recall the most minute details. youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her "How?" saying and hearing! them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " real overwhelmed by the ideal. Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost "One moment, if you please." of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the That made three. On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood self-sacrifice be exacted? Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those "Sire, a post-office." appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who effrontery. "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." Valjean. They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible grape-shot was a conflagration. Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their hereabouts!" "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. "Tell me all about it!" consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy What was to become of Marius? Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's Fauchelevent replied:-- situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: Fauchelevent went on:-- become august. He had just expired. old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that "She will not turn round." Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ were not made--" CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of "Madam," said he, "so you are going out with your horse?" went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's hundred horse-power. "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and this." explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the "All! All!" deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have This noise made Valjean turn round. "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with "On your knees!" he repeated. "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns pay for the drinks." [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge "Too late." get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first journey is long and costly. I need a little money." "Monsieur Marius, if you please." the galleys like?" And, with a bow, he said aloud: himself: persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et VICTOR HUGO. devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier