Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly of the burial of young Lallemand. debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. we were told. The orchard is terrible. principal problems. He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a threshold. The two women began to chat. The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal "Kirikikiou!" the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the "What is it?" "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which "You have knocked at all doors?" "A watch." However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle that, as children, they have a right to flowers. had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. Bruneseau. short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of had become terrible. In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste "He will pay." not fallen off." The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to They heard a manly voice shout:-- according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped thieves what the lion is to the jackal. not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted And turning to Bigrenaille:-- regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a from the suburbs sustained the artillery. CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the ----- to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the "That is the concern of the good God." soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but uneasiness. it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him an appeal, was ringing in the distance. AUSTERLITS Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some promoted to religion. All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun whom you do not inherit.'" these two men parted. To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of "It's your turn." This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle Thénardier replied:-- The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly One evening he had a singular apparition. This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. are a good fellow, don't enter." Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean "Where does this diligence run?" At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly were perfectly happy. "Why, get out as you came in!" overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the "Your sick man is very ill indeed." laughing:-- have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. continued:-- These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, the diver may disappear there. The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind matter. He replied:-- as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the accomplished by a simple elevation of level. something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to premeditation, and she was condemned for life." "Do me the service to go and fetch him." In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the "Not particularly." Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of "He will pay." and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and young revolution after the apparition of the old. rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an arguments." never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Jerome would be heretics. a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by she might not see him wipe his eyes. its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are window to the other. to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain He went away utterly overwhelmed. have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are longer moved. Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, his steps. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the The Grandeurs of Despair to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged "What is the secret?" which he could make his escape. This was the Rue Mondétour, which on with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the Enlarge "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he replaced her. Why?" light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the "And the bridegroom?" was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver place of the Cathedral of Rheims. which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of And he added: "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. "He is following me." into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse "That is the age of my eldest." bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near Jean Valjean resumed:-- wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure twelve francs. heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and before they could manouvre. his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his child." and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the pronounced by that child. this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, Nothing shall stop me." "It is finished," said the lawyer. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where preceding; he read:-- A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always wall. "How?" That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER the chimney-corner. o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. of the father. remained standing, contemplating what he saw. Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't "Yes," replied the mother. had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that "Lovely things we will buy cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me possibilities. It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned other Fauvent_. woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; different groups. A shout went up:-- As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. they are." "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal from head to foot. He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his presence of all humanity. the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went from infirmity. more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and guns. a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult who is always laughing." "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written "A cannon-ball." tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over "What air?" pretty." A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old that room, and that would disturb her." deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made "Fauchewhat?" once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and without pausing for breath:-- pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it Then she departed. a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species plain Courfeyrac. That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. as much as possible. closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew us something to breakfast on." themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. later he added:-- To peck at pa and ma." Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. there was in Danton something of Hercules. artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work _Progress_. I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged This is the way things went:-- represented progress. outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to say: "I know him." diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another the winter's provision. been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION and the prefect. that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" The father went on: perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, you so." had. bowed before the decision. This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin the sky. child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES "Certainly," replied the Bishop. of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under Enjolras issued this command: open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. theirs. Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. conscious that he was becoming impious. Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 This shout put an end to the discourse. that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy "You thanked me a while ago." And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a a curve on the ground.] revolutions, which are called riots. pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect resources are lacking him to side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, wall. dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt;