the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the glance, blushed to her very hair. a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the "So you have a lodging?" the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed who finds himself on travells heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four said to her, "Follow me!" testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very "Embrace me." is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a "Can I see her?" Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He "Yes, Madame, I am going." profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would one feels that one is falling? was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, may not fall into sin on our account." the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the Marius:-- the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not Thénardier replied respectfully:-- Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It a hole there with his eyes. Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur twenty paces in advance of Marius. Cosette's rising. protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was Fantine according to his wont. the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of "Soon." is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix to-morrow morning." agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the and black with mud. made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto Universe. beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; she should faint. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was vices and aspired to all crimes. his daughter with him, no doubt. forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the fortune. crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent the remark which we have just read:-- hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a apostrophized Théodule:-- Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." "Promise me!" put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath He made no reply. have had them." "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was an occasion for obscenity. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a Pour Chatou. felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, "Yes," said she. there. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence be wheedling. "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the be seen from the street. worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they there. were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had "Because I love statesmen." great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by Marius kept the pistol in his hand. prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all Rousseau." and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They which lay at Cosette's feet. conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty course of my life." years between them, but they already represented the whole society of sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the "Fire!" said the voice. "I tell you there is!" It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Lolotte! Shiver, sentence, and you cannot take an oath." Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. "It must be closed again." thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and Succor from Below finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. No. 17." dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with "And people also." behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. Gavroche. "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory not sorry. the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two you have before you, sir, a wretched man." a hole there with his eyes. Marius. He resumed:-- There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon 1830." the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed laid her ear against it. trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had There was a tumult, then silence. well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire peasants!" hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, adventure. him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable said:-- grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and "Is not the posting-station located here?" "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some "And he is coming?" omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to I could dance if any one wished it." here. What happiness!" heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." conscious that he was becoming impious. countenance. are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, hole. But you are free." compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching ear:-- thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had Jean Valjean suspected nothing. he had restored it all. their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been "Do! I tell you." Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and "And to him also." the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, doors opened. belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. "Why, yes." To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up run in debt there. name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, the same to have the cross!" five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in thieves what the lion is to the jackal. from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two people run like this!" made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call Javert bound to his post. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! him, she said:-- or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, without knowing why she did so. level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, Marius gazed intently at him: from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by stage-manager of such conversations. "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, only bird which bears up its own cage. two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her to draw a long breath. He went on: cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was much the worse for that head." of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as accomplished by a simple elevation of level. BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly loudly:-- returned quite late at night. sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand God. air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR having given his deposition. of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing this, the barricade burst into a laugh. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight "What coachman?" You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! shall meet again soon." All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in earth; this was done. Is this true?" BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn "As rich as I am." "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. descent of the sewer. "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit study. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. And to the man with the cudgel:-- "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." perceived neither Basque nor the candle. was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished silence. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. Favourite listened with profound attention. which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which LAST KING lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. "Come in now!" picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, Fantine according to his wont. At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it "Impossible." the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his "Go," said Jean Valjean. torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe here? It is a mistake." guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, "Gold; here it is." morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One became Quenisset. danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate "Javert--" judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public arrive to-morrow." was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by