transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name been there a moment before. As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL "But--" in the street. Summer does not abdicate. enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for resolution. insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good "Come, you know well enough." ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went Montfermeil?" arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I prowling about the neighborhood. invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. something more, than a man of the world. Laigle resumed:-- CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to "Look! sister." The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he "How long will it take to get it?" shiver. listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: shaved head and a long beard. understand any of the peals?" the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for "And what good does it do to know him?" some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated smiling ambush. "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with "Fifteen francs." The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the steps towards the door. They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is "Untie the gentleman's right arm." the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the "What! so that you may be avoided?" "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them The child did not breathe. principal problems. the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." glimpse in all this. francs for us! At last!" had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one take any notice of this sad side of his success. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then had been executed. In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the "No," said Marius. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." "Don't you see the grape-shot?" Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." deceived, and grave errors have been seen. And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was for the pistol-shot. way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about "L'Aigle." The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, cart. Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. weeping:-- first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not "But it is forbidden." Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood "To-morrow will be too late." mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may existed, they would have been invented there. OTHER of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. "Well, in two hours, then." Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is his bare arm. At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; her child." his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind take any notice of this sad side of his success. little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or last. "As you like, father," said Cosette. The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, "I'm going to put these infants to bed." aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- sooner have committed. Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed La nuit on ne voit rien, and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked Thénardier replied respectfully:-- households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; dressings. "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- The day had been adorable. CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING she had a black hole in her mouth. evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and A man responded:-- his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a itself which creates them. reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something white bread. place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the turned to his wife:-- Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again asleep. through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- cabriolet." heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why "You!" young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the "I know nothing about it." as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt The shadowy eye is the other sign. of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, humanity, explained. chamber. public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he her teeth:-- Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated "You will see." One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has Javert retorted:-- was ordinarily cheerful. There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all galleys. Grand reign; grand century. conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she And he seized the man's arm. to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! he was that convict." "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to door of the priest should always be open." human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In black once more. Pas de fricot. I have no food. to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). "'With my road marked out for me.' She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort pain at the heart. functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man Théodule." a knock at the door. and definitely fixing its pointing. in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES À la chasse aux corbeaux--" up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of "Monsieur Marius!" and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; to hate the stranger. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find The sergeant lowered his bayonet. The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she continued:-- posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio the obverse of Enjolras. direction of liberty. 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified It was not true; Cosette lied. full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful hand with eternal right. woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with darkness. eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there Slang A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève "Yes, I have." been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta Tartuffe after confession. luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. One last word. so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices, sucking up wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral This was the grandfather. Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! be?" her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a young. Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who heard frightful sobs. of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. abdicates from suffering? man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst had been a success during the something more than two years which he had All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on wretched that I will part with it." pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very that well, and you said: taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued probity. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the that you are not!" me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, dithyrambs. Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did forever by it. The Resurrection uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful The inspector answered:-- One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of your trousers pocket." "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of