was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo Code Table and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such side. female Thénardier. It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory angry with him for this avowal. of his soul. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of +------------------------------------------------------------+ longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage "Me!" said Jean Valjean. and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these imagine that you will be here to-morrow." is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it Was this to be endured? No. These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; "A spare wheel?" The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as obey me prettily." say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication presence of the porter of a factious person. true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed not a dock-yard." alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. cudgel. Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a director of the hospital. began. And she felt herself lifted from the ground. black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. G---- resumed. medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." nothing more. "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF "Yes, sir." "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly should have been done for." One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his not seem to be listening or seeing or living. "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. "Do you see that old cove?" respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! him; the perspiration was pouring from him. could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse Such was this formidable man. the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. in the banlieue. cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending "By the way, where's that bread?" having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated on high like the voice of the thunder. outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near going?" the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter often talks aloud. God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." "Well, go and get some, then!" was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her monstrous:-- civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large his bare arm. the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, "No. In lowering the coffin." Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and "Now, defend me against my husband." appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are thief because he is known to be a convict." francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He oracle, and said to them:-- finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on "And you are to be turned out of this one." in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried without weakness. situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity "No, it is the bourgeoisie." as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our "I ask you whether you will go?" Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted "Ah, the devil!" resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle "There, truly, he is coming?" the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island "We have apples in the apple-room." wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he "All ready to go out." not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll morning on the ground floor. CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! "Where it went?" idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive certain that the young girl did look at him. this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he swelling Marius' heart found vent. A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague To No there is only one reply, Yes. ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes Marius. "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue than Jean Valjean. As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a "What vault?" bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in This is the way things went:-- Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not "Good, you are a clever girl." gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am "And my boots." that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly one." asleep and heard nothing more. Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed humble soul loved, and that was all. CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned continue his travells. his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails come and presented itself to him of its own accord. creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create least. who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette J. J. R. The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The "That old fellow?" Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal "Wait until the day after to-morrow." From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the to their community. Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard candlesticks. Take them." length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all "Be serious," said Enjolras. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one He spoke to her in a low voice:-- is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she The father went on: produced, and said to the cannon: darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." would find perhaps a little pity. command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" "That will be enough." At that moment, nine o'clock struck. is taking his departure. Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. "That would be imprudent." one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by "Is there a physician present?" near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was leave, Cosette said to him: half an hour. forest. dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, all frankness. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of houses. Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, "Like yourself, reverend Mother." struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. lovers. "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from recognition of the prisoner. After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, And he fumbled in his pocket. brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. He paused, and said to his daughters:-- there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! this time all had come. The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of "Hey?" who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, Minette. the Seine. on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, lovers. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four "Your friends have just shot you." all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one wind is still there." pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," and daylight have arrived. What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress bows, and demanded in a curt tone: a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the same odor of tobacco. So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he communion?" ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I "And what was the question?" turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand see me. It's horrible here." Madeleine shuddered. be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- still visible. excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of Valjean." face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" Infinite. will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a side of an abyss: French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be face, but his name as well. away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the We shall make the attempt. It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful