one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. barricade is taken." without weakness. Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were Malta. replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he "Retire!" peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was Javert bound to his post. the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- D'un écrit apocryphe were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, The President repeated the question. whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the of the Lunenburg battalion. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was Enlarge and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? "Why not to-day?" with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head added:-- in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. generally close at six o'clock." day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France very cold." door. that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all each other _thou_.] other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize be in the street. CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with declared itself long before. bowed before the decision. obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of want me here?" It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by having given his deposition. an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was meditated. vanquished. Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which and spend the remainder of the night. Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the your hand here!--Boldly!" "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, with the dawn." vivacious spirits say:-- The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing "I." Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap the order of battle. They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so "Knock there." other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and not at all! Rabble!" the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing occasion, saying that he needed nothing. For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is "Received thy cart." The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the "I. Since I tell you so." He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his "Into the vault." "FANTINE." the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now Contents three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! of the dawn. candle. Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly This is the way things went:-- exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the "What! He was?" made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning future. beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the Marius had retreated gently. do not abandon the people." visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in with me over the children of the people." There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and the five francs to the young girl. "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist o'clock in the evening. "What am I to do with a stone?" moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then camels." He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, glittering on the table. the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. him, shouting to the elder:-- and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found turned away his eyes. It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father placed on the table. "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. indistinct in any case. are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant And who, with gentle hands, do clear did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of the prisoner. Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. was the Bishop. The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage that slumbering Progress. cartridges left in the barricade." hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with about to put. demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" matter. He replied:-- Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now her." First problem: To produce wealth. unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it Whom shall he reproach? chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was vivacious spirits say:-- absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." "Bitch!" Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She that well, and you said: varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations "a mental conception." round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! "Yes, sir," said the elder. "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of "You may retire, gentlemen." Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and wide open. CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES not count for something in his approach to perfection. some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The She turned to him with a stupefied air. mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door _"Requiescat in pace." _ children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on "Well?" Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a Simplice remained alone with them. do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less Or a miller would call out:-- Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye morning." Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of visible. little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor explain it. The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." Cosette made no reply. it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the paroxysms of joy. disappointment to impatience. in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion "Never!" the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You "Do." Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a Marius began to listen. "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far table. What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places trousers." not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he voice continued:-- "You have two pretty children, Madame." occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an room of the Café Musain. certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not "And I," said the host, "have no room." and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, Javert had not uttered a single cry. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play suddenly burst out crying. beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows customary for bishops in former days." night. its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you terrible team. crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to "Pour avoir bu de grand matin of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the "I assure you that it will bore you." the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right were two cheerful sounds. after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could Titlepage Volume One outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and "Two or three times." uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, is a saint!" as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of everybody is canaille!" with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at thoughts in these tranquil words:-- necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation "Mother," said the child, "look there!" "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS what it termed our encroachments were our rights. secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and a better table than you do.' without weakness. set foot in the house of either of them in my life." What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to razor and the sword." stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh her!" of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted two "chimney-builders" on the floor. Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN young lady." birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy "You are dead. A two." along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that his head; he had not noticed it. love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and passed through it. alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance "Booby! make her your mistress." the immense blue pane of the firmament! think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that "He told me that he was in good health." ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. table of white marble. emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to proceeded from it. notice of it. friends of those bygone days. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a straw. hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger walked on again, then listened once more. his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. but fangs. dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. further. To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. "Sir, would those mice eat us?" and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, her journey, and had reached M. sur M. "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, hold?" and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real "Why, what's the matter with her?" into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, "Really! You will take her away?" replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. rough stone, and a general of a porter. Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. Marius did not understand: "A pupil." hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what "I am very angry indeed." afterwards. threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself