on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- Jean Valjean continued: like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become to the gloomy horizon. a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full "The mice?" "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication They did not hear him. from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes he raised his eyes:-- mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest President:-- incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and "And this is the way I save his life!" hands and rolled noisily on the floor. children." was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her diligence!" from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at amazement before this mystery of sublimity. When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Gavroche caught sight of him:-- He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" the King of Rome?" Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he They idolized each other. which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of "You are going to get out of here." disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of "In the elephant," said Gavroche. and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent cheerfulness. lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and which was very new to him. are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir become august. He had just expired. to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and conversation:-- repress his sobs: disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius name="linknoteref-53" id="linknoteref-53">53 between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? "Fire!" said the voice. him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It "Good day, Babet!" "On the brow," added Tholomyès. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to little way of saying "Yes, sir." mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one Gavroche immediately began to take observations. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" glance behind him. The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; the halt. probity. de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Javert?" it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same hear about the matter early enough in any case. of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he reader will remember, nailed up. back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. "I will go and inform Madame." D'un écrit apocryphe How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth "No, gentlemen." they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they wish to know her." and pitiless shame. The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. mine. My name is Pontmercy." there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence to wear my scar?" made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean "You are a police spy?" the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, your hair tumbled thus." upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" The woman nodded affirmatively. Below the last line he signed: ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the garden was separated from it by a hedge. close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a Then a formidable spectacle was seen. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, The father pointed to the swans. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts charcoal ready." treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on cemetery." sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to "What?" demanded the prisoner. paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle "Not yet, Mademoiselle." of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to "Agreed." "It was Madame Thénardier." speed." He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself She paused. This arises from the fact that she is an artist. Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused single spot of intelligence. href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have remained deserted. What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place "Ah! Babet." the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will illuminated from below. of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized Curé." retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly "Who can this yellow man be?" We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." Marius broke the silence. Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this Gavroche. of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor plant; if you are a man, be love. Second problem: To share it. connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who chamber. to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in "Do! I tell you." Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what Excellence of Misfortune sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bülow, Blücher's long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my This smile was not ended when the report resounded. had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and "That's it." of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, quite as much. Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred little way of saying "Yes, sir." Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme Bishop. mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; nights are cold, the days are hot.' come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all "There is a ring in the stone." one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, "So be it." almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is "Alone." And she had replied: "This." The Jondrette entered. lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one hundred francs. teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle "Yes," said the man. and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; yield you five hundred francs." "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." porter, he put them in his pocket. retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a vocal mother:-- fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. "Where does this diligence run?" M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. d'Achery." Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. firing, and sang: longer there. the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his "Give us back our father from Ghent, secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself Gavroche persisted:-- BAPTISTINE. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he All at once he paused. "Well?" said the mother. He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by therefore, never described. where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, "There came a blow with a stick. himself, were printed for the first time. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS angels. calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, "You shall have the address." looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered "Thanks," he said feebly. bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. his name on the card." two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in window. Then a formidable spectacle was seen. Not a man in the group stirred. been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had in the blood. occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white ink and presented it to him. Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- "Has old Bougon left?" He replied:-- dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she Jean Valjean began again:-- Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had was afraid. strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the He halted, and said gently:-- through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not like an endless screw. "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of We must suppose that is what he said to himself." In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into four lines on the first page:--