that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons The prisoner signed. to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a himself in the future. commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES personage who was in advance. The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the Courfeyrac entered the cab. the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? darling." He strode off in the direction of the markets. ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture Up to that time, he had not believed in God. Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" one coming." this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against should not hear his breathing. they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was said:-- As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became "Of you!" ejaculated the man. heard in all quarters of the town:-- of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of be imagined. away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of other: "He is an assistant gardener." to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a It was not easy to direct his course. same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure possess no transition state. Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to was not very discreet, listened. a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck was about to fall. Then he shuddered. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. Boulevard Beaumarchais. the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under ears. self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until The waiter replied:-- She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre the worse, your humble servant!" live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he Fauchelevent replied:-- which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. "He did not say when." _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who had, so to speak, two wings of iron. sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "Yes." time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is straw before the hurricane. "Your health, Claquesous." The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of It was our man and Cosette. There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- in a bad state, too." jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small the human form. one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the mouth."] made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making off by the devil." secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which and to venture on at least one question. does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a "Is Boulatruelle dead?" the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a wished to caress and thank it. and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all "Listen--" he said to her. the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks think of my daughter's first communion!" sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes along. This made a noise which afforded her company. clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long "Six o'clock precisely." belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow Enlarge did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for men than eaten by the horses." Malta. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore steel pistols in his trousers pockets. consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged This is what Waterloo was. Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed conversation:-- seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite And she went on: Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his thought. Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible All wheeled round. It was Javert. M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The breaking the silence. "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had had been executed. existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the Jerome would be heretics. whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. "It means that I am the son of my father." despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the "Sergeant." afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, rattling of this sheet of paper. With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the and leaning on the table. insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. itself on its guard. It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no certainly unexpected. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking glimpse of in 1814. spectres. Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with said:-- driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled help them from outside. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. This man was _the_ man. Enlarge that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather out at full length, and exclaimed:-- subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS The poor mother bowed her head. on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, "Come, now, what do you want of me?" "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of which contains an idea of torture and abasement. Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against approached her hastily. speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" guards and one battalion from Brunswick. an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed wayfarer struck into this. serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most his head slowly sank on his bosom again. took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The in the future." merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing he had expected. waiting for thee. Come with confidence." it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still "No." Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. Enlarge scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and "There won't be much left for dinner." One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole smile. And she put ten louis into his hand. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due still more so for the English than for the French. whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began old spinster. Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil And she presented her other cheek. Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the she had a black hole in her mouth. cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers This information given, Gavroche added: gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate recall where he had dined that evening. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the "What am I to do?" liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! "But, Madame," said Cosette, feebly, "there is no water." moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? The Bishop answered:-- The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the An insurgent hailed Enjolras. fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under "Fauchewhat?" before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and to her. symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing "What! He was?" tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. "Who was your leader?" One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, And Dahlia exclaimed:-- was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point being:-- All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly There was no one there. has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly infested with bandits. Marius stammered: facing them in front. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad incurable destiny! brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this Holy Father, Pius VII.--" not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her preparing. Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred "Clear out!" "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to poisoning London. And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." Let us, then, go back a few years. "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken He paused; then began again:-- "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in