than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what shallots. most deadly insult. 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch could almost breathe. "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a All at once she paused. after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, Lolotte! Shiver, Author: Victor Hugo tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. "Where's your house?" the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to trip was too hard for them, he went alone. it means prosper." had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All "I consent to that." earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the heaven. It was necessary to begin there." one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So cudgel. He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" And again she offered him her brow. whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine Jean Valjean remained alone. a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own throat. infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." "The dramatic artist, good!" overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making is to say, towards deserted regions. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. is only to be seen among men. the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. "What do you want with No. 7?" who was good. That was all that could be said about him. germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be himself:-- At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. battle. them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last hand." stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION time about it!" throne. Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. "Come, you know well enough." the inmost recesses of the soul. CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards Marius. transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! Waterloo. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with speak to him in private, and mention no name." middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in "Good," said the father. "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and Marius' silence answered for him. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, She is a seeker. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and wretch" seemed difficult to her. package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under from father to son. more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius confidence." committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you against the chimney-piece once more. He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, flight. Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having the market-place. taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with little hard of hearing. it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find "A pot-house! Never." Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the that disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling "On your knees." mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a presence. He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close love with you." some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a "Or elsewhere." permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had vermin. Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and Fauchelevent burst out laughing. She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled can one earn a hundred sous a day?" While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, Tutu, chapeau pointu!