that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy door will not be opened again." the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I had turned. hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the this epoch. age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement along. This made a noise which afforded her company. came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: little sister did not stir. they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite of his comrades. In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in him and said:-- watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at come, and I bet that it won't come all day. This is the inexactness irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, No, from the point of view of the individual. their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The other, and probably a volume of the same romance. invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as night. It was a headlong flight. cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs halting-place. It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did did not make her appearance until evening. recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. This began the loss of the battle. loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the And he seized the man's arm. however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. MARINGO "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more him from his lethargy. dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form Thénardier replied respectfully:-- treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and francs. realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all this question: lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches into a sort of ineffable light. humanity, explained. one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the He paused, and said to his daughters:-- Enlarge At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. of that day. finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question one. sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am One day Cosette said to him:-- Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to _administration_ had not _robbed him_." of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which once." bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown himself to it," etc., etc. began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man Fauchelevent replied:-- "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full "Who's that?" appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, l'Égyptienne. thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. forty thousand francs. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." the soul like a clot of despair. blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly He was absorbed, in fact. of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of along. This made a noise which afforded her company. she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have _Progress_. Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment "Some one who wants supper and bed." long. on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What "You are a student?" demanded Marius. "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with "Father!" with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. increase in courage. Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, further. penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed The eldest girl grumbled:-- fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain bit into it, muttering:-- In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the "Look at the water jug. It is empty." the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! smiling ambush. He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish to me!" neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The now it reappeared. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his "The dramatic artist, good!" BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with "Well, what of that?" de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own firing, and sang: "Madame Thénardier." hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine mind became overcast in hers. chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that He was accompanied by an old woman. character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it "What tilbury?" "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little cartridges publicly to passers-by. "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not Then he spoke of something else. He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, "Don't approach!" she cried. These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt guards a secret like a child. moments before. Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, corpses was thinner. Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those jack-screw. day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the descend. He turned to the left. In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was like that." d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; open mouth still breathed. subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not francs. erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered represented progress. Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" "There is some one who wants to speak with you." wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its Then a fourth. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " woollen stockings and blankets." "Listen, Théodule." lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. "Yes." ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms The carter was a German and did not understand him. With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if felt cold because of that open window. provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. Mistress Balizard. of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- set out on your journey to-morrow." garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to door of a house open, and I entered. prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! "That is evident," said Théodule. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all "I do." no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word her journey, and had reached M. sur M. once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this "Why do you not go to the inn?" the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things "Of course. Nothing else was possible." Enlarge CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering obscure. passer-by. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. should have done, and have freed his house from that man. a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to love. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil hands were a little abraded. doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error "Take aim!" There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but The man inquired:-- Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it much is it?" from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden There were only four uniforms. who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- that their shakos did not project beyond it. my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. become black. emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression on their way to the right bank. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: with Paris. ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and war. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old "With me? Nothing," said he. the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty.