bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight "I am here to do anything you wish." direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, And he hastened to add:-- undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in Thénardier. curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn powerful in his crime. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. "What! so that you may be avoided?" provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his What does this signify? He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as "You wished to be Madame. You are so." Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing The traveller bent over them. appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" "What, daddy?" "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the over and over again. affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He under side of civilization. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed It was conceived as follows:-- would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was He spread it out on his bed. In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. throat. hundred thousand francs with you!" sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, frightful gulfs! are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful They searched him. odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing minuteness. the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that "You love me, then?" watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe from behind. which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. present day represent forty-eight millions. organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that him. name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that watches which he wore in his two fobs. Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have height of their bodies. expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, "Wife!" he cried. met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the Jean Valjean listened. other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in the world except Marius. rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time other Fauvent_. Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: Thénardier! Now do you know me?" The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of shadows. was about to fall. Then he shuddered. bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van And off he went. quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius up and replied: "Javert." "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! derived from it? the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home is Gribier." eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. once more. had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. to trembling. conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen this. Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should very poor young man who was called M. Marius. first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered confidence. before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was whatever. in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error francs were mine.." "You are the brother?" It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some "How is that poor woman?" law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. ivory-handled knife which I use at table. It was here that Jean Valjean stood. And Grantaire began again:-- "It is she!" gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched CHAPTER X--DAWN The man half rose. believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything He is alone. His name is God. live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be Frontispiece Volume Five is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had arranged in his mind was monstrous, that "to let things take their The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed thou wilt smile." fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to affair of passion!" with the city council." the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a some person who is dear to him. People die of that." "Approve of everything." privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was a garden, and lone women." several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. as though he had just heard it:-- that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have the thoughtful man. bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with support. It was high time. after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly them and him. "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost low. burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing foiled the spy by keeping silent. inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. And he raised himself to a sitting posture. and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. Javert began again calmly:-- had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the said:-- "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the "On the front?" he asked. "What is the rope for?" M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils d'Austerlitz. chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, Brevet, and Chenildieu. the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since "How old is she?" at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of eighty. floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out round. They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and He was no longer there. children." He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached _cadets_ and _fauchants_. Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" Javert had reached one of those extremities. breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny "What for?" judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast And as he ran:-- deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it than a cemetery. one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and to me that Paris is waking up." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no leur dire un mot. this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Fauchelevent replied:-- the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." hither?" the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot that is to say, to the light. had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. Fantine laughed with the rest. The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, Whither? the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were "I have found out." with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came strained his ears. still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? Gorbeau house had come to nothing. encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, at the moment. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION questioning. The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor age," said he. contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. "What address?" bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old you defiance with this word: I love you!" was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for "Father Fauvent?" just fallen asleep. been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely her bare throat. like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant four. garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who "That is true." bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, "No." It was Sister Simplice. Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian only in the lower court. all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit Thénardier replied:-- dark. luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the "That is just." cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were He awoke, stammering:-- on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable needle. further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: attitude, and became motionless once more. fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." knowing it, seated on his bed. Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on words. That Madame had sent her to inquire why M. Jean had not come on attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be dead. Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with had a round hat. saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated He went on:-- "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in "My father!" would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to serene.