streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far "What?" and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, MARINGO in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the "The gentleman on the third floor?" no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" "Father Fauvent!" presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain She hummed:-- once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to What a reason for lasting! "Has moved away," replied the porter. counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, obscurity, something which was moving. Norman legends call the Alleurs. the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large there is nothing in this house." combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." of Cavalry, a royalist who Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. first time. "I do not know you." mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. Titlepage Volume Two established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; provided. topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- the parish of gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- Frontispiece Volume One Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people lightning as that. Éponine made a final effort. the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue At this moment, this being had the air of a child. itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT "A gentleman of property, like yourself." "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" "Iron forks and spoons, then." beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did an old hat and his purse. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed "The plate is quite full." One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point pleased. portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this VOLUME II.--COSETTE successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old lightning as that. had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE of movement for the death of Being. in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the which Éponine was entirely concealed. At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving The prisoner spoke at last. Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible After a pause he went on:-- Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins "I thought he was buckled." CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the "And he will accomplish the trip?" which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. Bahorel replied:-- sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there Title: Les Misérables Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a must not be seen with a woman like me." Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous "Yes." these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery insolence of others. The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him everything. swamp. and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up Faoucq. be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he don't have a finger in the pie." diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. one." of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face It is hard to miss the last cake. "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. that slumbering Progress. been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession Remarks of this nature found a situation. sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no "Well?" was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into ivory-handled knife which I use at table. the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" became Quenisset. in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." "That's true," said Bossuet. civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and lines even at the present day. of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a was overwhelmed. stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. "Good devils even," said the Bishop. punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance balance of light and darkness. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each "What is your name?" said the man. "Give it to me." also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows brow in both hands to arrest them. they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and visions mingle with his dreams. that institution was like. in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. "God--or the Devil." imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.