So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him herself heavily on one of the pallets. "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was was prowling about in their neighborhood. The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this "Take aim!" exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still "Impossible, sir." wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that "But first, take a drop," said he. up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful effect of a corpse." room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of melted lead. wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to "Cosette." thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. "At Saint-Lazare." the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. "Not particularly." Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, repress his sobs: At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace "I have been driven away everywhere." "Double-six." when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the l'Homme Armé, No. 7." the Restoration. it means prosper." served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were other, and probably a volume of the same romance. 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels Marius did not understand: "A pupil." were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, Or a miller would call out:-- "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. "I can't." CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea invisibility. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS "Fifty sous--three francs." England because he had business there. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no very cold." "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help "All day long?" "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish Rousseau." on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the _The Mother_. How is that, my child? weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, complete composure. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. Let us, then, go back a few years. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was "Immediately." the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." The wall held firm. the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles will pay as though I occupied a room." _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. that they give you suck." perfectly, and replied:-- were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of look after the house." "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. about the country-side, and caused great consternation. parapet. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and _Miserables_. large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild Trappe replies to Horace. and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It Jondrette replied with dignity:-- fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. "Do you see this letter?" BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not Faubourg Saint-Antoine. behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his more." _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases details. He went on:-- Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I J. J. R. his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, of the fruit only arrive later. Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child "I am very angry indeed." BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH "No." He remained silent for a moment, and then added: Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street Brujon?" "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. very low voice:-- some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but reloaded their weapons and began again. his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming "Yes!" stammered Marius. "His daughter, Célestine." his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of "Certainly, sir." The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his Jean Valjean resumed: "You?" see!" exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who the people of Queyras!" Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, "That very one," said the husband. more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths It was conceived as follows:-- he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear He condemned it to his hatred. affair of passion!" crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his very timid. Yet he was intrepid. A third shovelful of earth fell. commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a The father went on: waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. have the honor to be, The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be M. Gillenormand continued:-- CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the have dared to recall them. Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most Gavroche raised his face:-- gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally respect for darkness. to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which He replied in a low voice:-- CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life sine expressa superioris licentia_. Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted you; have I displeased you?" Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela completed the bar across the street. sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away vague blue light. people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, the old parties. "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of He replied:-- On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of out his candle. Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the "This is my place, sir." followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." the mendicant on the highway:-- It was he. of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately tilbury that I own." occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an "Show him in." waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have something, and retraced his steps. damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, laughing and lyric. Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of this illuminated space. hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When heap of rubbish." He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of of gloomy expectation. mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a stir, or turn her head. There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and "Here are the reds!" experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. by it. The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the in the morning?" thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were "You are driving me mad!" exclaimed Marius in terror. knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I thieves had given him. two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, from the books and manuscripts on his table. He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half d'Urfé mingles druids with them. Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found priest. replaced her. Why?" nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. felt cold because of that open window. basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I what? What expiation? Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back by Haydn. The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five bourgeois. the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried She is a seeker. I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside shouted: "Death!" the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the