black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man together they buried the empty coffin. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, she had a black hole in her mouth. pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed "Where does this diligence run?" Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for "They will rob you, Monseigneur." age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and BOOK SECOND--THE FALL steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. "You are he!" said Enjolras. apostrophized Théodule:-- down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little "Nor to any one?" said Marius. You will deliver Cosette to this person. day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. This shout put an end to the discourse. _"Amen." _ red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was WHICH IS TREACHEROUS indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, There were only four uniforms. CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA maid, continued to say: "My people." the body. have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good Fauchelevent replied:-- girl. Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of room. In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." "You will carry her out?" well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from inn-keeper:-- hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the about something else. This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some promised so brightly for the future. I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know And she offered him her cheek. "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood PREFACE Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a something was on the point of occurring. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! brow in both hands to arrest them. Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." astonished a man." another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a VOLUME I.--FANTINE. long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near Frontpapers at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his exists the right of the soul. that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty cross. thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy the Rue Croulebarbe. to be looking on. Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any wounded by the want of respect of logic. cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The matter. He replied:-- Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an "I will pay for them." gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he his life. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other the obverse of Enjolras. He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that gazing over it at Cosette. the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for "She did not answer it." in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- moment when nudity becomes indecent. direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse He had just touched the bottom. gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The Le jour on voit très bien, questioned, Montparnasse replied. if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance "That it is very cold?" century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop "And what makes you think that he will come?" and seeing what was going on in the street. mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, Lolotte! Shiver, Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on instant later he had fallen asleep. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused period? writhed. Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, poet. The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a great one, Jeanne's, still held out. the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, made him a sign to look behind him. the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. "Come, you know well enough." Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any "How far is it from here to Arras?" "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; "You have saved my life. Who are you?" payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just He drew near to the Jondrette girl. other." FANTINE in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the _Échabeau, Private Café_. "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly mouth, and shouted:-- smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed "I see what it is. Well, yes!" was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with M. Madeleine shuddered. black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. eyes. produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- to wear my scar?" Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? hair. What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing submitting to the claws of a lynx. abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the derived from it? a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this "The handcuffs!" he shouted. absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a was terrible. He laid four louis on the table. might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running low voice, as though talking to herself:-- Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be Titlepage Volume Five legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their which he had purchased. and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize oozing walls,--what declaimers! None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following charming young lady, also." They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had length; we should almost say, to underline it. two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go "Yes, Babet." Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently and came back with the remark:-- _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. "Where is the Argenteuil?" "What time is it?" unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur sooner than he had thought for. each other. he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the "For what purpose?" ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which tremble around her. In this situation he was not a lover, he was not Fauchelevent burst out laughing. avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has possess no transition state. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, Or a miller would call out:-- cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. itself. was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, "This is my place, sir." cudgel. bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades you! You are an ingrate!" _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. enigmatical list:-- lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand steps towards the door. waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, dog who finds his master again. the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive was received at D---- herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair Wellington had drawn back. No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same talent of a juggler. He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. Etc., etc. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between done Jean Valjean a favor. this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of front of that vision of joy. "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. A man overboard! hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, "Here are the reds!" clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. a saved angel. In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a fashionable. trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards CHAPTER II--MARIUS that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against man pass. heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, with a tiara on his head. "What time is it?" for you!" Valjean. right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. "Is Boulatruelle dead?" Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was "Little Gervais, sir." did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- "I will go and inform Madame." he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The "Well?" let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative The father pointed to the swans. man pass. to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot