soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to The soldiers seized her by the arms. further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a PHENOMENON He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; be called drops of soul. it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le Javert bound to his post. "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The and absolute duty. of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in He had a certain sensation of cold. going on; they hardly heeded this detail. he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous The wicket closed again. wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by him out. coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little The Grandeurs of Despair "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel "Really?" Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have itself. This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. word. possible. "Who was it?" At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with philosophy is called blindness. Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of when the authorities made an examination later on. suffering bestows. constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "Yes, sir." wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty would be broken in five minutes more. child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight "Well?" strides. His eyes were extraordinary. "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you "What is it?" said Marius. Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. where I would have planted my foot on you." his daughter with him, no doubt. the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of post of a drinking-shop. in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. "Madame Thénardier." had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are dead!" rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, asleep and heard nothing more. exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch voice:-- was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily Things could not go on in this manner. was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. Marius asked:-- off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new deprive a man. wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note to see her face in the dark. "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion obey me prettily." odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and barricade, but Marius was its savior. those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; the unknown. Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the the diver may disappear there. group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a fellow began to tremble again. suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of angels was approaching through the gloom. crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the lovers. taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that serious. one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to space of fifteen years. ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. both of which are close at hand. He continued to advance. should, to-day, wound the side of his country. At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the forest. "Father Fauvent!" once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, The Resurrection Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little "Under Pantin [Paris]." replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. restore your health." CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than the birds are exhausted. and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. me ten sous." shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the "Yes, why?" entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and man's self-sufficiency. The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. astonished a man." listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé large. attended to first. old-clothes broker at the Temple. heavens. in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng stand in need of us?" a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" "Impossible!" respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. He was no longer there. trembled. the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of Charles X. from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which round. but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if M. Leblanc:-- Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness "It must be, said a warrior." and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this "So do we." in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English daybreak. "Here is a mattress!" BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of "Keep on your masks," said Javert. preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the Javert bound to his post. Carmagnolet. absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, "No." was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the each other there. I want to know it." man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.