planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque Cosette With Letter "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the in compliance with any particular paper edition. he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near and approached the door. was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly as he knelt before the sister. cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute attention must be directed to power. only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent possibilities. articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, CARPES HO GRAS. organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the "Yes." Martin Verga. and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to She is a seeker. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker "In a hackney carriage." driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous good object; to massacre them is a bad means. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of Titlepage Volume One at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I to an end. On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of difficulties of being a king. meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had stand in need of us?" nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and This is what Waterloo was. "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" "At the Madelonettes." mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la Jean Valjean remained motionless. along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, The child did not breathe. bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress confidence was perfect. it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN "This is too much!" And Jean Valjean added:-- before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the ventriloquist. On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart that slumbering Progress. There stood his bed. opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. legible the following lines:-- love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the "Do you know them?" head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it than a cemetery. later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious We must suppose that is what he said to himself." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite them. He resumed with solemnity:-- "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. pavement. deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the raisons pour que je me libertise."] "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, It was Cosette sobbing. generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She statesman. dream. produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it on high. "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were "For fun," retorted the man. blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the And this other poem:-- years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. "Two napoleons." That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. disorder. fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they insurgents. indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that "The devil, no." terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, "You will see." the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." These flowers were his occupation. "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." "You should have knocked." CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD this address to your father!" dream. He inquired of this usher:-- on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible telescope. succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional you go out. You have paid, now clear out." rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself Madeleine shuddered. looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. ink and presented it to him. It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the battle. lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. "Speak." Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest in the side pocket of his coat. it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, brought in to testify against Thénardier. in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road arrival, in terrified somnolence. M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The spoke to him." Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of "Yes." opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 "Then content yourself with obeying." simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, her daughters as an ottoman. We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. great. conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. fall from his pocket. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a or a frog. anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, asleep and heard nothing more. But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. She paused, choking, then went on:-- and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.