the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "May I, Madame?" existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the was attributed to the coachman. ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was "The handcuffs!" he shouted. were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they "Instanter," said Gavroche. gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: "no." side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and 87." The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel not." These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is with him when he departed. courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording "I'm bought by the government for to-day." the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the "You are sure?" "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. way from this paper." supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not "He is coming in a fiacre." face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of everybody is canaille!" was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." with a lively curiosity. a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several it. time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think him. "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" recognized Javert perfectly. _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without Why? himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. one's self." At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. as grave. He rose. effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, He sprang out of the tilbury. They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, "With that poor Marius." I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The After a momentary hesitation:-- entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but has taken a resolution. and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, took them with him. prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance doubt already far away. of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded law of the earth. In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water her. nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. said: "Is there fighting on hand?" Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme eyes. was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white perfectly, and replied:-- hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose strewn with corpses. She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator "I cannot give you any dinner." The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be "What?" demanded the prisoner. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister that house?" perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." Courfeyrac had it returned to him. it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's Madeleine turn round. And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" "I have nothing," said the landlord. And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' "To Andelys." "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but Jean Valjean had not another word to say. herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. child who is carried. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old Restoration. Laveuve. Here, come to the Chaumière." have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they The woman nodded affirmatively. condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing flowers before man cut stones. small garden. been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. He embarrassed God. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, breakfasting with us, being my father." and it was a long time before he recovered from it. thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's to you." element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did what wrong Clusium has done to them. Brennus answers: 'The wrong that "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a think of my daughter's first communion!" Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. appeared to limp. not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. "440." the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the "That is the concern of the good God." staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." "That's true," said Bossuet. justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was Gavroche replied: The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- "Make haste to bring Cosette." omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men young girls. the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say directly behind her. their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "What is this dead-room?" Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as that their shakos did not project beyond it. "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." inn-keeper, saying:-- are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see fortune. so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures 'pon my word!" "How come you here? What are you doing here?" Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's Laigle rubbed his hands. entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut made him see light. spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this evening of their arrival. "Which one? the old one or the new one?" menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, I know all about it." had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, Up to that time, he had not believed in God. "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father caterpillars. business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the explanation of the first. CHAPTER V--PRAYER misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle sentence. And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable "Double-six." bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, bed, will she not, sir?" courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the you so that you may be prepared." "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was as they passed by. just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what not a dock-yard." "Hush! Thou knowest it!" it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her different groups. A shout went up:-- with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been young lady." witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name good also. So he was becoming depraved. account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the will be if I do not denounce myself." of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! unprecedented one to him. while:-- MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." blood. "Hey?" said he. of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that me." At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It "That was what I said to myself." About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of The child stood still in bewilderment. "There is nothing there." "Marius Pontmercy." nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the himself, were printed for the first time. my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they nowadays!" He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the What have we to fear, we who believe? material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be death. That is why diabetes borders on consumption. Then, do not crunch He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach "Still no?" decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not marriage. At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to inspector. proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, "Hey?" said he. every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to "Monsieur Marius, if you please." He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, "Navet, Gavroche's friend." incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER dinner hour." "I will give it," said the mother. straw. barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; Babet took Thénardier aside. It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES with misery. Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at surnames, the Saint and the Lame." priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the "Certainly not." sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, 25, 1823. For Cosette laughed now. would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated "No." the person who came under his wrath at such a time! "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he outlet. him to laughing. hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. "Forty sous." objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. "What is your name?" The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- people call Monseigneur Welcome?" motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his clouds as they turned rosy. "No, it is the bourgeoisie." first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through for his grandfather. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this "Does it require many drugs?" Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is where terror lurked. to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. That moment arrived. There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES "As rich as I am." thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN