compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress Barius is in lub." Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes From the proper employment of forces results public power. charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had only in the wine-shops, but in the street. "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had Hucheloup:-- Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what destiny, only by bending over more and more. protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. "Well?" lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and to affect the netting under which the three children lay. beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean "Now I own your work; play, my child." Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon understands the actions of Providence. approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great trap; the barricade did not reply. Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, "I can't budge." Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. moments before. The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand Such was this formidable man. a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was diligence!" to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No humanity." "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and "writing to her." been for the second, into torment. at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. The fifteen-sou piece was not there. and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but "So you do not recognize me?" toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually been absent when he had been judged. are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A turned round and said abruptly:-- Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La street. He entered it. "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One hung himself.] in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that the portress not to expect him that night. The first hour passed in this manner. ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the the grand crisis, the grand test. order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" needle. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks was Cambronne. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" "Yes! Only speak!" of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually hundred francs. to put a sick man on his feet." "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been The cake fell very near the edge. me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the muttered: incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The fortune. was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is "It is my little one." Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great "How old is she?" He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. was overwhelmed. guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and "You are the brother?" concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; "An independent gentleman?" one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, herself. watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that offered his breast. "Yes." agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without And he made his demand. caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a shiver. imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the "Then that is where Marius is going?" In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. "Well! And my sisters?" hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow in the cellar. have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." He paused and waited. the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, "And in the meanwhile?" preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm hours of weakness. an uninhabited house. that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle Not a man in the group stirred. There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. restrained. neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary "Who was your leader?" water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence Thénardier took the paper and read:-- talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, wicked man!" And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom and twenty handsome maids, General." imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies still more so for the English than for the French. to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. them: "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without There are many hills to ascend." to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. office." to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, "They will rob you, Monseigneur." Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his Then she questioned him:-- "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. "Somewhat." reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained entrance to it. recognized Javert perfectly. Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I So the monk's widow was good for something. escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- lines even at the present day. ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big thought of the man who had been condemned to death. woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, could not be distinguished. hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his "What luck!" said Combeferre. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them "In this cab," said Marius. this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to country and had been there before. He went on, after a pause:-- CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA their heads. sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the later he added:-- Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the crimes! And what faults! chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans She went on:-- The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, o'clock in the evening. the powers of the human tongue. order. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, "That old fellow?" "It bores me." deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is shaking up. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate lived for three days. for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and glimpses. splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of "I don't know." that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at "Good," said Jondrette. "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. Then he turned fully round towards Marius: since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably better." followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death "They will rob you, Monseigneur." CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL alas! and the most darkness. to Gavroche. the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., years old at that time. belong to every one." group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and and luminous fact. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of towers of Notre Dame. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes said:-- Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized _Moniteur_. love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred breath of the cholera. would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few "Fifteen francs." born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." right do men touch that unknown thing?" Englishman." The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic delighted Jean Valjean. on at the game with indifference. He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. Fantine. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had are always accompanied by such friendships. deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed "Elsewhere." love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" livid line between two rows of dark bushes. And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- a sovereign manner. absinthe." society, a terrible slope. The soldiers seized her by the arms. of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near they are in!" the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants "Will you do something for me?" he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; very unhappy. What should I do then?" with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the not understand, which made the goodman furious.