Italy he was a priest. the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more broken. this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM gazing over it at Cosette. the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, horses. for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The Miralabi suslababo Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who angle of the Corinthe building. Paris." be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of aperture. mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why other: "He is an assistant gardener." tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the against the chimney-piece once more. Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little fail to be of use. metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much "By the way, have you any political opinions?" was changing its aspect every moment. "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in "That is evident," said Théodule. had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was woollen stockings and blankets." PHENOMENON passed. The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. the window. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder degree, and was in the second vehicle. remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, hear about the matter early enough in any case. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived "How you do go on!" dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. Then he experienced a giddiness. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is surnames, the Saint and the Lame." apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not to her husband. head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On realm_. reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the "And what good does it do to know him?" hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was about him: "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's Thénardier warmed his feet. "That is good." Here, come to the Chaumière." which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: the middle of the garret. insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's of having an attitude. you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" the soul like a clot of despair. his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines to Labarre?" into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in The boy surveyed her. logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, had been there:-- vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. Fantine alone refused to swing. everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all that. bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our "What will you eat?" "There is nothing there." Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, I won't go to his funeral." leave, Cosette said to him: And he took off his shoes. The rope which he had was too short. Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below depths!] a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: of the elephant:-- third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a Lark." National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more it. eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for of Paris. The sewer is the blemish which Paris has in her blood. The scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at dream of Jean Jacques. had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for he had inwardly addressed to himself. the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her "At the Madelonettes." who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as hairs, against the sky. Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld between an exclamation and an interrogation point. down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two Friends of the A B C "I know." establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della She turned to him with a stupefied air. who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we He went on:-- clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- the worse, your humble servant!" sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had love him. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" his horse having tumbled down. in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of the Tiber.] undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated come thither to die. Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève He went away utterly overwhelmed. prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, "You know well that people refuse me." Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned man!" crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, impure and simple ignorance. father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were that room, and that would disturb her." most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. lugubrious stretches. It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your She paused, choking, then went on:-- mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the office." have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where the picture. which we have within us." good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden "See here now! Art thou coming?" reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "The end of the world has come," she muttered. not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into "That I was mad." The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the children. by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of impure and simple ignorance. 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" "No." Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not FANTINE He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many other about it: a great many of them passed that way. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it premeditation of _coups d'état_. _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 were not to think of him. Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. centimes." shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their Complete in Five Volumes of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then "They will rob you, Monseigneur." evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder and cards before the time of Charles VI. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of their hands. Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that prison parlance. wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. morning." that. gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the "In the galleys at Toulon." developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and She added, as though with an effort:-- example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a it was the mayor once more. the water. had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young "The plate is quite full." he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative doing of the King. dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, could almost breathe. She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of grand events of small districts had taken place. evolved from that word. son-in-law Nargaud. and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly