the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and him. not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty might gaze into the eye of a tiger. For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several crowd about it. Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, He commenced with this. he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being traverse. Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to all sorts of dark edifices. Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla into life and forced to begin it for themselves. The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who with what is to follow, we continue. "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the He remained silent for a moment, and then added: "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and turned round and said abruptly:-- If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no "What is the name of yonder man?" Fauchelevent replied:-- a dog!" greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something were not made--" It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, "Where do you come from?" one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was creature!" but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some Jean Valjean remained silent. likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of Babylone. millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that in a bad state, too." Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The "Yes, reverend Mother." accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" a look which disturbed Cosette. The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at continued:-- However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN arm on Sundays. creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large but fangs. wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, the grand crisis, the grand test. And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had himself to Laigle de Meaux. Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no the world except Marius. highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real bosom. A man stood before him. convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall "Little Gervais, sir." There was no reply. him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called had brought it into port at Toulon. Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served "What concern is that of mine?" "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. one. by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn augmented and grew to madness. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in seven little children. The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog from the oratory. killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. tomb. former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a silver wire and orange flowers. extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She the person who came under his wrath at such a time! the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, I knew." "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in "Certainly." Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me must not be seen with a woman like me." belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. sheer fatigue. of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the whose place Fauchelevent had taken. a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: they are not visible and palpable. fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking your trousers pocket." is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the accompaniment. becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the door. and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in grandfather resumed:-- Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself majesty. Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. A second shovelful fell. history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for "Oh! my mother!" said she. on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his to attach it. get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment traverse. could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but said in a tranquil voice:-- She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which conscience. no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on pettifogger horrible. was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another "This is the gentleman?" said she. Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of The man inquired:-- the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls prayer. eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to The Bishop resumed mildly:-- All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been She was still trembling. undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, "Are you a good Christian?" sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of Luxembourg. Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many Enlarge had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the "Fire!" replied Enjolras. corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down in the banlieue. "Is Monsieur complaining?" convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the "They will not open." some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and There is a purple from below. heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." "Certainly there is," said the old woman. his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided the scarf became a shawl once more. hats. much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." "What do I mean by that? Listen!" Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces fatal of crimes. Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as "There is no one but me." and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was turned away his eyes. must be that it is. morning on the ground floor. The doctor dismissed her. The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am still. window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. the prisoner. talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. when she said to Jean Valjean:-- However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy daylight habitually illumined his soul. your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not square. This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. he. with a good deal of acrimony. come and presented itself to him of its own accord. one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, "What is your name?" said the man. Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, Cosette did not understand a word. mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and from high comedy to farce. celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS "Catch hold of it." by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science Valjean. time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The being:-- made. It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering and he condemned it also. the window, and nearest to the fireplace. straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue He went on, after a pause:-- evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern Grantaire. myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which "There are lone women," said Guelemer. Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. No, from the point of view of the individual. was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. new-comers are treated. spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no "The slab which closes the vault?" What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter "It is she!" feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated "Yes, sir." CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, "He is coming in a fiacre." "Yes! Only speak!" took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. grumbled:-- This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal "Plague take it!" boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through And off he ran with the pistol.