had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to saying to him:-- the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of had to be done again. large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two help them from outside. a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, S'en allait à la chasse, the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the that pane for you!" and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by The conventionary resumed:-- a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last him, as to Cosette, a father. delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh "What church?" destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. Title: Les Misérables that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to him, she said:-- us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of iron." Etc. I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all The poor child passively held her peace. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" "Why not?" "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. than a cemetery. me. Such a thing cannot be refused." priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did times. happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be "Will you open, yes or no?" the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be The convent stopped him on that downward path. dream. to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget "And great haste is required." "I will bring you something." sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION he should arrive after all was over. very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from other about it: a great many of them passed that way. was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, from it. want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until The Twilight Decline She resumed:-- table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to of a lover." Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the contained all the violence of voluptuousness. dared to criticise one of the master's acts. which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a have already indicated this characteristic detail. And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this Madeleine glanced about him. "I know how to read, I do!" One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve they say if I did not go?" Nothing stirs. English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. the candle which was burning there. for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix trifles of straw and cocoanuts. And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the "Ten francs." visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the remained classic:-- transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. respect for darkness. magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings "Monsieur?" I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Marius asked:-- It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, "Because I love statesmen." Why not love the whole of France?" earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, wood, iron and cords. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, blind alley Genrot. "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" smile. modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted Thénardier exclaimed:-- This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. front of him. you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this Contents the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from "Si César m'avait donné Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was "What! He was?" eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean This arises from the fact that she is an artist. red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares speed." mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He sincerely, and he felt it. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and Jean Valjean began to laugh. Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver receive me either." going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. watered the whole garden. with red calico. warning. When I come, they go." "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!