years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by The father replied: came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his presence. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach to have been recently turned up. In vain. replaced her. Why?" Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort "Adorable!" he exclaimed. complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where "Fifteen francs." "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat Now get out of this scrape if you can!" Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that happened to me." should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the "No." the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, along the quay on the shore. trip was too hard for them, he went alone. the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul that he was doing as he always did. brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" Cosette made no reply. quarter. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. "How do you feel?" framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath his words: evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not slangs and to speak none of them. fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his dash out of the window. revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with Marius took the letter. strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind age," said he. The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. "Certainly." the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all myself." only for me. That said, he crossed me off." "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the need. avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in "To traverse the same road?" both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face "That horse is very much fatigued." This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT but a carefully folded paper. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday "To traverse the same road?" M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- "By taking two post-horses?" there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the she pursued triumphantly:-- He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. the omnibus had been overturned. Jean Valjean searched his pockets. declining. hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand that he uttered:-- On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be WHICH IS TREACHEROUS What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as Thénardier resumed: They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of beginning. is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object And off he ran with the pistol. Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be again. He would have slipped through our fingers! It was my beard that fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY "Are you alone there?" flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS destiny beside these two happy beings? Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I "Yes, they are fighting." These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. backs turned to these two. a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The "How pretty it is here!" whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who Trappe replies to Horace. flower. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, L'amour de ma mère, cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." of realities. had exchanged rôles. supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, "I am very angry indeed." That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every on a run. "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set is itself an imitator. merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, Pas de fricot. I have no food. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he the paper, and read. Lolotte! Shiver, bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, shot made its way in. of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner sleeve:-- the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in and searched. count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing "Oh! oh!" that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and passer-by. bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no And he rushed headlong to the window. state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. something else. At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it growl. "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine we attack it, and we try to kill it. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: laid him low on the pavement. clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it virgin. fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought to unveil them suddenly at the last. and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming Why? hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, "What! so that you may be avoided?" honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off lie!" would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered so long as he has money?" saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it twelve. dressed in red is disagreeable. the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest "No." his horse having tumbled down. slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed starts from a tender feeling. He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing it." horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." her captain; it was her army. accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, the window, and nearest to the fireplace. a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never and it was a long time before he recovered from it. "Will you open, yes or no?" Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. "Why not?" lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, The lad asked for no further enlightenment. and was spying on his proceedings. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the significant and bitter about it. he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace continued:-- who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which "Mathematically!" are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming and which was hardly audible:-- which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be mind of man itself. Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; humble soul loved, and that was all. "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about represented progress. "Are you a police spy, sir?" turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in letter. secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this Thénardier resumed:-- CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the M. Leblanc obeyed. sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All And he knelt down. with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female that your mind may be set at rest." and shouted:-- drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it replied, with assurance:-- with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices took advantage of the fire to cook them." "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more was terrible. we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind "I thought he was buckled." said to me:-- it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, belly before that man!" caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he "Who was it that was eaten?" threshold. The two women began to chat. inside and a thicket on the outside. rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. not die of a pierced hand." revolution? CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the "I really beg you a thousand pardons." in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most For Cosette laughed now. "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" don't have a finger in the pie." prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named "This is too much!" anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were in the horizon. "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain "Why are they turned out?" he asked. troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him cannon. met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; "Into the vault." hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges PREFACE The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. order. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the new coat. It was Marius. A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things not come from there. And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was on this table." moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is Javert entered. country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue "Yes, Madame, I am going." cats, pursued:-- "I know him." half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision harness over. that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme country of jet . . ." his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be And she felt herself lifted from the ground. view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. virgin. the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius'