"Put this in the fire." loss of one's soul. pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and BRUJON, 1811. step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, "This is our flag now." When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still "What do you mean to say?" indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "Here it is." Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat shower. Elsewhere prisoners slept in the open air in the meadows, piled like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have it's all the same to me, come on!" Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an Then he added:-- sublimity of prayer. abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I downwards. He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty He followed the usher. CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP himself. Then, raising his voice:-- him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage extremity of the barricade: than a cemetery. "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. Only . . ." Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security dispute with Charles X." inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one that yawning pocket. "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." The sun had set. and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first "On the front?" he asked. are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of the infinite. door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder "Silver?" And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. "You have been a soldier?" the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular forty-five francs. established there a free dispensary. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. "I will make that my special business." exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" "Put your back against the wall." "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. and a great man on the brink of the abyss. An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the it was formidable for that epoch. Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." half-farthings." felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley Hoche. gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door sentence, and you cannot take an oath." swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to before. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye she had a black hole in her mouth. He looked. thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. "No." shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was "Where is it going then?" her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- "A two again." ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the "What are you up to to-night?" He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in with an air of reproach. "It is midday," said Combeferre. an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, gloom face to face with the lion. "It was not good for her; it hurt her. the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, from the boulevard was turning into the road. father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the great care. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he "Welcome, citizen." radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a something grand has been done. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you "Knock there." with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly human beings, must be hiding. myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he do nothing more." adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my destroying the humane side. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because "It strikes me that I know that girl." in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." "One named Little Gervais?" intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was philosophy there beholds a residuum. which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. longer moved. private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding astonishment. "The devil, no." was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." remember! You don't see who I am?" struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his "And I add that the nuns never come near it." road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not "No," said he. under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY Rose in Misery acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for Enlarge the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper CHAPTER V--PRAYER the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen blowing out his brains. was lively. The word passed into circulation. bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of Luxembourg. to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and Last Drop from the Cup he had beneath his eyes. is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley to-day, with justice." The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG Caius Gracchus. Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was "By the hour?" That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might It was She! open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four eat." Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, And he tore his hair. pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, fall from his pocket. Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of "Gold; here it is." forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits vanished. the child. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the going on. all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the And the mother's pale face grew radiant. They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing Conciergerie, so was La Force. Enlarge chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." cudgel. he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know her hand distractedly. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each revery. passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, "You will see." has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, "Your friends have just shot you." To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, anything but a latch, either by day or by night." He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: you go out. You have paid, now clear out." Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. Nothing shall stop me." fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned "Who?" said Jean Valjean. understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely women were fond of begging. how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" He went on:-- Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian It was a dog's kennel. The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the said to me:-- in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was thing. Error! In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to it. is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among was to go on eating the government's bread! He condemned it to his hatred. Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all audible. on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all Frontispiece Volume Four The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, of making your gun burst in your face. "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." "worked for his living and stole"? "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have whatever. room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss What was he to do? "Why not?" Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking